The 2025 Jubilee Year calls us to be ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. This year’s Assembly for justice and peace will hear about those whose journey is not one of choice but of coercion – those driven from home by conflict, poverty and trafficking.
With speakers from the Santa Marta Group and Bishops’ Conference the day will introduce to Nottingham Diocese a scheme for ‘Modern Slavery Ambassadors’– ordinary people who can help bring this unscrupulous crime to an end in the East Midlands and improve care for its survivors.
Meeting in Spalding, this Assembly will also have a rural flavour. Lincolnshire’s longest-serving Agricultural Chaplain will share seldom-heard stories and cries for justice from the ‘hidden countryside’.
Caritas volunteers will announce an initiative to support some of the county’s most vulnerable residents, including refugees and asylum seekers. We are leading the development of a movement in Lincolnshire to ensure that no incomers to the county are beyond the reach of help.
The programme opens with Mass celebrated by Bishop Patrick at 11.45am. We’re delighted to be hosted by the Parish of the Immaculate Conception and St Norbert. The parish’s thriving pastoral initiative Project St Thomas offers a kaleidoscope of services to the people of South Holland.
Project St Thomas began in 2020 with ‘Hub In Hub Out’ which brings soup, sandwich and friendship to those in need, and has branched out to money management for young people, beginners’ IT, community singing, ‘Nutrition and Read’ and much more. Find out more at lunchtime about Project St Thomas over their home-cooked soup and sandwiches.
Meet others from around Nottingham Diocese whose faith inspires them to build a better world.
The church is 10 minutes’ walk from Spalding station. Trains from other parts of the diocese arrive at 11.24 and depart at 15.54.
With speakers from the Santa Marta Group and Bishops’ Conference the day will introduce to Nottingham Diocese a scheme for ‘Modern Slavery Ambassadors’– ordinary people who can help bring this unscrupulous crime to an end in the East Midlands and improve care for its survivors.
Meeting in Spalding, this Assembly will also have a rural flavour. Lincolnshire’s longest-serving Agricultural Chaplain will share seldom-heard stories and cries for justice from the ‘hidden countryside’.
Caritas volunteers will announce an initiative to support some of the county’s most vulnerable residents, including refugees and asylum seekers. We are leading the development of a movement in Lincolnshire to ensure that no incomers to the county are beyond the reach of help.
The programme opens with Mass celebrated by Bishop Patrick at 11.45am. We’re delighted to be hosted by the Parish of the Immaculate Conception and St Norbert. The parish’s thriving pastoral initiative Project St Thomas offers a kaleidoscope of services to the people of South Holland.
Project St Thomas began in 2020 with ‘Hub In Hub Out’ which brings soup, sandwich and friendship to those in need, and has branched out to money management for young people, beginners’ IT, community singing, ‘Nutrition and Read’ and much more. Find out more at lunchtime about Project St Thomas over their home-cooked soup and sandwiches.
Meet others from around Nottingham Diocese whose faith inspires them to build a better world.
The church is 10 minutes’ walk from Spalding station. Trains from other parts of the diocese arrive at 11.24 and depart at 15.54.
