Deanery Day Pilgrimage to Littlemore, Oxford
On Saturday 22nd March over seventy parishioners from around our large deanery travelled to Littlemore, for a Day Pilgrimage to the parish church of Blessed Dominic Barberi and Newman’s College, which together are one of our Diocesan Jubilee churches.
Our Banbury and Warwick deanery was brought together two years ago from three previous deaneries and we have been working hard with open meetings and now our Pastoral Forum to find ways to share insights and draw on each other’s strengths for the Mission of the Church. This was a chance to discover St John Henry Newman and Blessed Dominic, and the ways they were open to bringing people to the fullness of faith in a very challenging age. In particular we prayed together for our parishes and the best ways in our local Missions to work together.
We all appreciated the generous time and attention of the Sisters of the Work, who have set up the resources for the Jubilee and who made us so welcome. In three groups we were able to explore The College, the converted stable and grain store buildings which Newman and his friends lived and prayed in for crucial years of discernment in the 1840s, and now so well restored and cared for by them with the Oratorians. The sisters answered our many questions and gave us a great insight into the value of Newman’s teachings and the help of his prayers and example in the present.
We pray that we can be open to every challenge and opportunity in our own day, and be more clearly aware of the treasure of the Faith handed on to us.
St John Henry Newman Pray for us Blessed Dominic Barberi Pray for us
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Additional information:
Littlemore Website www.newmanfriendsinternational.org/en/
Banbury & Warwick Deanery website: banburyandwarwick-catholicdeanery.org.uk