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Term Card: Michaelmas 2000 |
All meetings take place at 8.30 p.m. in the Blue Room of the Catholic Chaplaincy. Members who wish to dine with the speaker, please inform the President by Pigeon post or e-mail at least four days in advance.
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First Week |
Tuesday, October 10th: Drinks Party
8:30 p.m – 10.30 p.m
A chance for new and old members to meet the committee and each other. Existing members wishing to attend are asked to contribute £2 towards costs.
Thursday, October 12th
The Centrality of the Sacraments
Rev. Fr John Edwards SJ
Fr Edwards will begin the term’s speaker meetings with a talk on the Sacraments, the signs of grave of the Church.
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Second Week |
Thursday, October 19th
Contemplation: A Normal State for Christians?
Br Daniel Seward, Cong. Orat.
Br Daniel, a former President, and now a deacon at the Oxford Oratory, will speak on this aspect of spirituality.
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Third Week |
Thursday, October 26th
Benediction, Termly Meeting, and Drinks
Prayers in the Chapel of Saint Thomas More, followed by the tremly meeting and drinks in the narthex.
Friday, October 27th
Millenium Conference
Rev. Fr Avery Dullees SJ
To conclude the Chaplaincy’s series of four conferences for the Millenium, Fr Dulles and other speakers will speak on the Trinity.
Thursday, November 2nd
The Persecuted Church in China
cecilia Bromley-Martin
Miss Bromle-Martin spent some time working in the underground Church in China, and will recount some of her experiences and thoughts to the society.
Thursday, November 9th
Praying the Scriptures
Rev. Fr Augustine Hoey
Fr Hoey, a priest in Westminster diocese will expound the need for prayer in reading the Scriptures.
Thursday, November 16th
The Zambian Church
Rev. Fr Patrick fitzgerald MAfr
Fr Fitzgerald, A White Father, has spent a lot of time in Zambia, and will speak on the effects that reforms there have had in the Church
Saturday, November 18th
Retreat
Dom Laurence Mctaggart OSB
St Benet’s Hall, 2 – 6pm, followed by supper
Thursday, November 23rd
Mary in the Twenty-First Century
Mgr Eugene Harkness
Mgr Harkness will speak on the continuation of our need for devotion to Our Lady as we enter the Third Millenium
Thursday, November 30th
Termly Mass and Dinner
Rev. Fr David Barness
Venues and time to be announced. If you would like an invitation, please contact the President at least two weeks in advance.
Elections to the Executive Committee will take place on Tuesday of Week 7 in the Catholic chaplaincy. Nominations shall be received by Sunday of Week 7. Full deta
Term Card: Hilary 2001 |
EVERY TUESDAY 5PM – 6PM EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT with meditations from John Henry Newman in the chapel of St Benet’s Hall All meetings take place at 8.30 p.m. in the Blue Room of the Catholic Chaplaincy. Members who wish to dine with the speaker, please inform the President by Pigeon post or e-mail at least four days in advance.
First Week |
Tuesday, 16th January: Drinks Party
8:30 p.m – 10.30 p.m
An opportunity for members to meet up after the Christmas vac’ and for anyone who wishes to find out more about the society.
Second Week |
Thursday,25th January
The Venerable John Henry Newman – A prophet of our time
Rev Dr Philip Smyth
Fr Smyth is a graduate of Bristol University where he read Theology and Religious Studies. He trained for the priesthood in Rome where he obtained his Licence in Sacred Theology with a Tessina on “The Blessed Virgin Mary in the writings of John Henry Newman.” Last year he was awarded his doctoral degree Summa Cum Laude when he defended his thesis entitled “Divine Providence in the Life and Theology of John Henry Newman” in Rome.
Third Week |
Thursday, 1st February
Surviving the Church in the 21st century: A guide for generations X, Y and Z Dom Alban Nunn O.S.B.
Fr Alban is a monk of St Benedict’s Abbey, Ealing. Formerly a student at St Benet’s Hall, he is a renowned musician and has given talks on a variety of sunjects around the globe
Thursday,8th February
Liturgical Renewal for the New Millenium
Very Rev Cuthbert Brogan
Fr Cuthbert is the Prior of St Michael’s Abbey, Farnborough. The Abbey itself played a part in the liturgical movement at the beginning of the last century under the leadership of Abbot Cabrol. Fr Cuthbert now works tirelessly to continue keeping the abbey as a place of great monastic liturgy.
Thursday,15th February
Termly Mass and dinner
Celebrated by Rev Fr Sean Thornton
TRINITY COLLEGE CHAPEL at 6p.m. followed by the traditional black tie dinner. If you would like an invitation to the dinner please contact the President by pigeon post or e-mail.
Wednesday 21st February
Mass in Oriel Chapel
Celebrates the Bi-Centenary of Newman’s birth – 6pm
Thursday 22nd February
How Christianity became Roman
Rev Fr Bernard Green O.S.B.
Fr Bernard is a monk of St Lawrence’s Abbey, Ampleforth and is currently studying at St Benet’s Hall. His doctoral studies centre on the life and work of Pope Leo the Great.
Thursday, 1st March
Scandal in the cloister? The visitation records of the English White Canons
Dr Joseph Gribbin
Dr Gribbin obtained his doctorate from Christ’s College, Cambridge. He worked extensively on the visitation reports of Abbot Redman which are the most extensive collection of vistation reports from medieval England. They present a fascinating picture of the lifestyle enjoyed by an Order that was once widespread throughout England.
Thursday, 8th March
Meditation on Our Lord’s Passion, Termly meeting and end of term drinks
The events for Hilary 2005 are:
WEEK ONE – 20th January, 8.30pm
Drinks for everyone and an opportunity to meet each other. This will be followed by Latin Benediction at 10.15pm.
WEEK TWO – 27th January, 8.30pm
“Karl Rahner: Theologian of Hope and Dialogue?” – Fr Philip Endean SJ
Fr Endean is a member of Campion Hall and editor of The Way. He has also edited a work entitled The Spiritual Writings of Karl Rahner.
WEEK THREE – 3rd February, 8.30pm
“The Role of the Laity in the 21st Century” – Fr Gerard Sheehan
Fr Sheehan is a priest of the prelature of Opus Dei and has recently been appointed as parish priest of St Thomas More, Swiss Cottage.
WEEK FOUR – 10th February, 8.30pm
“Emergent Recusancy” – Fr Michael O’Boy
Fr O’Boy has a doctorate in ecclesiastical history from Cambridge and is a priest in the Archdiocese of Westminster. He is at present Sub-Administrator of Westminster Cathedral.
WEEK FIVE – 17th February, 8.30pm
“The Church and Politics – how far should it go?” – Charles Wookey
Mr Charles Wookey is a graduate of Merton and an Assistant General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
WEEK SIX – 26th February in the afternoon
Visit to Mapledurham House and Holy Mass in the house chapel, by kind permission of Mr Jack Easton.
WEEK SEVEN – 3rd March, 8.30pm
“John Paul II and Heroic Womanhood” – Fr David Merconi SJ
Fr Merconi is a Jesuit who has written extensively on this subject. He lives at Campion Hall.
WEEK EIGHT – 10th March, 7.30pm
End-of-term dinner, and also a chance to review the past term and to prepare for new speakers in the term ahead