• Change a life

  • A Carmelite friar being ordained

  • A Daughter of St Paul leading a retreat

  • Dominican friars singing Divine Office

  • Benedictine novices

  • London Nun-Run, Monastery-Marathon

  • Franciscan friars at adoration

  • Religious campaigning for social justice

  • Taking time to reflect

  • Missionaries of Charity at Mass

National Youth Sunday 2017

National Youth Sunday is looming fast, taking place on 26th November. The theme this year is ‘Something to Say’, in line with the synod next year on ‘Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment’. We are encouraging priests, chaplains and catechists to meet up with young people to hear what they have to say. Please visit www.nationalyouthsunday.org.uk to watch a short video of five young people who went to dinner with their parish priest.

NUNdos: a nun-run pop-up restaurant coming to Shoreditch

From Tuesday 17th – Thursday 19th October there is the chance to chat to and be served chicken broth and lentil soup for free by nuns.  The three-day event is all tied up with the launch of a new Channel 5 series Bad Habits: Holy Orders, a show following five young women who swap their modern lifestyles for four weeks working at the nuns’ convent in East Anglia, who are Daughters of Divine Charity sisters.

And while NUNdos might be happening in East London, the whole thing is decidedly Instagram-unfriendly. The nuns want you to drop your phones off when you go in so you can take time to take stock.

NRVP Conference 2017

The annual NRVP conference will take place on Saturday 4th November at Holy Apostles Church in London.  The cost of the day is £50, which includes a buffet lunch.

Fr Nicholas Crowe OP and Sr Lynne Baron FCJ will speak about their experience in accompanying young people through discernment to the early stages of formation. The other contributor to the day will be Fr Christopher Jamison, the new Abbot President of the English Benedictines, who will speak about the upcoming synod “Youth, faith and vocational discernment”.

To book your place please complete this booking form and send to Sr Elaine Penrice, National Office for Vocation, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX or by email to elaine@ukvocation.org.

Would you like to join a Samuel group this year?

Wondering what God is calling you to do with your life?
Samuel Groups are for single young adults (18-35), who feel they would benefit from having some direction as to what God is calling them to do with their lives. London Samuel Groups for 2017-18 will have their first meeting in November.

Compass

Have you ever wondered whether the life of a nun, monk, sister, priest or brother might just be for you? COMPASS is a discernment programme that enables you to hear the call of Christ in your life.

Starting in October, Compass will take place in Milleret House, London, with the Easter Triduum at Worth Abbey in West Sussex. For more information and for the dates of the programme, please visit www.compass-points.org.uk. If you would like to take part in the 2017-18 programme please email compass@ukvocation.org.