The 2012 Towards Advent Festival will be opened by Archbishop Vincent Nicholls at 10.30am on Saturday November 24th in Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SWI.
Ther will be music from the choir of St Benedict's School, Ealing, and as usual the hall will be packed with stalls and displays from a wide range of Catholic groups and organisations.
For the first time there will be a stall run by the Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Linked to this in theme will be a special workshop celebrating the anniversary of Blessed John Henry Newman's "Second Spring" sermon. And there will be a guest appearance by Marcus Grodi,well known on EWTN the international Catholic TV network based in the USA.
Admission to the Festival is FREE, doors open 10am. Come and browse the stalls. Books, DVDs, craft goods, rosaries, statues, items for Advent and Christmas, and much, much more...come and meet friends, hear inspiring music, and celebrate the Year of Faith!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
THE 2012 TOWARDS ADVENT FESTIVAL...
...is a special one to mark the YEAR OF FAITH.50th anniversary of the Second vatican Council,20th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The Festival is a MUST for London Catholics - and for Catholics from further afield!
Our special guest in 2012 is Marcus Grodi of EWTN fame. He runs the Coming Home Network, bringing together new Catholics and enquirers from across the USA. He'll be leading a workshop and doing a TV show at the Festival - come and join in!
We also welcome a team from the Centre for Faith and Culture celebrating Bl. John Henry Newman's SECOND SPRING. Come along to find out more!
The date is Saturday November 24th 2012. The venue: WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SW1.
Put the date in your diary now!
The Festival is a MUST for London Catholics - and for Catholics from further afield!
Our special guest in 2012 is Marcus Grodi of EWTN fame. He runs the Coming Home Network, bringing together new Catholics and enquirers from across the USA. He'll be leading a workshop and doing a TV show at the Festival - come and join in!
We also welcome a team from the Centre for Faith and Culture celebrating Bl. John Henry Newman's SECOND SPRING. Come along to find out more!
The date is Saturday November 24th 2012. The venue: WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SW1.
Put the date in your diary now!
Monday, November 21, 2011
STARTING OUR SECOND DECADE!! A big success...
....The 2011 Towards Advent Festival was perhaps the best-ever....large crowds, glorious music, excellent speakers, and a wonderful buzz in the Westminster Cathedral Hall as people met and talked and enjoyed tea and cakes and bought books and cards and craft goods and rosaries and DVDs and statues and icons and learned about the work of so many different Catholic groups and organisations...
The Society of Catholic Artists had a wonderful display of paintings, there was singing from the Gallery Choir of the Cathedral Choir School, there were some beautiful hand-crafted goods made by a number of different groups and charities, the Association for Latin in the Liturgy was showing a DVD of a splendid Mass,there were books from Fisher Press and the Catholic Truth Society and other publishers, there was a lovely Mass book for children produced by Second Spring, and a great range of Christmas cards and gifts from Aid to the Church in Need...the Hinsley Room was packed to capacity for the excellent talk from Mgr Keith Newton of the Ordinariate, and then packed out again for the presentation celebrating the life of Blessed John Paul II by the Divine Comedy young people's drama group from Oxford.
Various religious orders were represented and it was a pleasure to welcome the new Community of Our Lady of Walsingham in their blue-and-white habits.
Knights of St Columba, the Catenians, and the Association of Catholic Women, all of whom are reprersented on the organising committee, worked with enthusiasm all day and this was a wonderful community effort which showed the Church at its best...and, yes, we're already planning for 2012!
The Society of Catholic Artists had a wonderful display of paintings, there was singing from the Gallery Choir of the Cathedral Choir School, there were some beautiful hand-crafted goods made by a number of different groups and charities, the Association for Latin in the Liturgy was showing a DVD of a splendid Mass,there were books from Fisher Press and the Catholic Truth Society and other publishers, there was a lovely Mass book for children produced by Second Spring, and a great range of Christmas cards and gifts from Aid to the Church in Need...the Hinsley Room was packed to capacity for the excellent talk from Mgr Keith Newton of the Ordinariate, and then packed out again for the presentation celebrating the life of Blessed John Paul II by the Divine Comedy young people's drama group from Oxford.
Various religious orders were represented and it was a pleasure to welcome the new Community of Our Lady of Walsingham in their blue-and-white habits.
Knights of St Columba, the Catenians, and the Association of Catholic Women, all of whom are reprersented on the organising committee, worked with enthusiasm all day and this was a wonderful community effort which showed the Church at its best...and, yes, we're already planning for 2012!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Read about...
...the story of the TOWARDS ADVENT FESTIVAL here...in an American magazine dedicated to fostering good liturgy and authentic Catholic culture...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
TOWARDS ADVENT 2011
All Catholic parishes in the dioceses of Westminster, Southwark, Brentwood, and Arundel and Brighton have now been notified about the Towards Advent Festival.
DO COME ALONG! And bring friends and family!
Music, talks, a chance to browse stalls selling DVDs, books, Christmas cards, Advent calendars, rosaries, statues,and more...
Refreshments served all day, play corner for children...
DO COME ALONG! And bring friends and family!
Music, talks, a chance to browse stalls selling DVDs, books, Christmas cards, Advent calendars, rosaries, statues,and more...
Refreshments served all day, play corner for children...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
TOWARDS ADVENT 2011
...plans are now well advanced, and material about this annual celebration of Catholic life and culture will be going to parishes soon.
COME ALONG AND JOIN IN! The date is Saturday November 19th, and the venue Westminster Cathedral Hall, London SW1.
The main guest speaker this year is Mgr Keith Newton of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
There will be stalls and displays by a wide variety of Catholic groups and organisations: charities working at home and abroad, caring for children in India, for persecuted Christians in lands where the Church is not free, for struggling families, for unborn children under threat of abortion,for young people seeking faith. There will be bookstalls and craft stalls, home-baked cakes and hand-crafted jewellry, rosaries and DVDs and tapes.
It's an opportunity to engage with the Catholic Faith - to be challenged, to find out about glorious Church music, how to teach the truths of the Catholic Faith to the young, how to defend and uphold great moral truths, and more...
Admission is free. Just come along and enjoy. Official opening 10.30am with the Archbishop of Westminster and the Gallery Choir of the famed Westminster Cathedral Choir School.
HOw to get there? Nerest tube stations are VICTORIA or St James Park.
COME ALONG AND JOIN IN! The date is Saturday November 19th, and the venue Westminster Cathedral Hall, London SW1.
The main guest speaker this year is Mgr Keith Newton of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
There will be stalls and displays by a wide variety of Catholic groups and organisations: charities working at home and abroad, caring for children in India, for persecuted Christians in lands where the Church is not free, for struggling families, for unborn children under threat of abortion,for young people seeking faith. There will be bookstalls and craft stalls, home-baked cakes and hand-crafted jewellry, rosaries and DVDs and tapes.
It's an opportunity to engage with the Catholic Faith - to be challenged, to find out about glorious Church music, how to teach the truths of the Catholic Faith to the young, how to defend and uphold great moral truths, and more...
Admission is free. Just come along and enjoy. Official opening 10.30am with the Archbishop of Westminster and the Gallery Choir of the famed Westminster Cathedral Choir School.
HOw to get there? Nerest tube stations are VICTORIA or St James Park.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
It seems a long way ahead...
...but it's worth booking the date now. The 2011 TOWARDS ADVENT Festival of Catholic Culture is on Saturday Nov 19th 2011...
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