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Local Distributors | Arundel and Brighton | Leeds | Liverpool | Nottingham |Plymouth | Salford |Shrewsbury | Southwark |Westminster | Wrexham | Local DistributorsTo find out about obtaining a free Resource Pack for your parish, please contact the following diocesan distributors: Arundel & Brighton
- Liz James, Advisor
for Marriage and Family Life An introductory event took place in Crawley on November 1st 2008. Here is the report on the day as featured on the diocesan website. Home is a Holy Place!People from the Diocese gathered in Crawley to meet and discuss the new project from the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, ‘Home is a Holy Place’. The day was led by Elizabeth Davies who is running the project across England and Wales in coordination in Arundel & Brighton with Liz James, Marriage and Family Life Adviser. This initiative follows on from the wide consultation that the Bishops of England and Wales entered into with people in the pews during 2004 called ‘Listening 2004’.
To help people engage with ‘Home is a Holy Place’ there is an excellent resource pack which includes a DVD and six suggested discussion sessions. The sessions can take place in parish halls or homes over a number of weeks or months. It could be used by parents of first communion or confirmation candidates and in many other ways. Liz James, Marriage and Family Life Adviser said after the day “We had a really good presentation from Elizabeth Davies and have been given a wonderful resource for parishes to use as tool to deepen the faith of families. At last the spiritual life and needs of families are being recognized and supported The ‘Home is a Holy Place’ resource pack is available from DABCEC in Crawley by telephoning Liz James on 01293 651152 or email liz.james@dabnet.org Introductory events are being planned in various locations around the diocese in November 2008, January and February 2009. Contact Breda Theakston for more information or to arrange a special event.
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October 15th at St. Thomas More, Aigburth for Pastoral Area 2 Contact Veronica Murphy for more information. Tel:0151 522 1048 View the Diocesan account of the launch by Rosemary Read
After a short
liturgy led by Fr John,
Elizabeth
Davies
introduced the first session explaining the background and stages in the
development of the Resource Pack. ( In the
afternoon, attention turned to some of the ways in which the pack can be
used. Having seen the introduction, the group began by brainstorming where
that element of the Resource Park would be useful. Afterwards each small
group selected a groupsheet of their choice and spent ten minutes
responding to the main question on that sheet. To conclude the session
T What next? Deanery activities:
What next? Parish activities:
October launch (Scunthorpe)
PlymouthCelebrating
Family – Is your home a holy place? Visit the Diocesan website For more information please contact Jillian Wilce at Cardinal Newman House, Exeter on 01392 671320 or at jillianw@plymouth-diocesan-office.org.uk SalfordRead Bishop Brain's pastoral letter on Home is a Holy Place. Summer 2008. ShrewsburyHome is a Holy Place launch events are taking place as follows: Thursday 27th November St Wilfrid's Parish Centre, Northwich. 7.30 pm For more information contact Helen Bassirat on 0161-436-4939 or email: Helen.mfl@googlemail.com SouthwarkTwo launch events for the DVD resource pack have been arranged: November
22 2008 at Aylesford Priory
An earlier day took place at Coloma Convent School in
November 2007 WestminsterHome is a Holy Place will feature at a Virtues for Life workshop in Enfield Deanery on October 15th 2008. This is a collaborative event offered by the Department of Pastoral Affairs and the Agency for Evangelisation Virtues for Life: Raising our
Children in Christ. October 15th 2008. 7. 30 to 9.00 pm The Agency for Evangelisation and the
Department of Pastoral Affairs will be introducing Home is a Holy Place
Resource Packs to all small community faith sharing groups across the
diocese in Advent Further information: Edmund Adamus, Department for Pastoral Affairs. Tel: 020 7798 9363
Wrexham
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One of the things that struck
the Bishops in ‘Listening 2004’ was that t
On
September 6th 2008 a planning meeting for pastoral area launches took
place, followed on September 17th by two taster sessions to introduce Home
is a Holy Place to department and agency leaders. The photo on the left
was taken at the first launch in Croxteth on September 11th. It is
aimed to launch Home is a Holy Place in 10 Pastoral Areas by Christmas and
to evaluate these before further launches take place in the remaining
pastoral areas during the Easter season 2009. Dates for forthcoming events
are:
The Home is a
Holy Place Resource Pack was launched in 
Participants were drawn from a
wide network, including
those active in marriage and family life ministry, adult education,
spirituality, justice and peace, the diaconate and pastoral planning. The
day was very much part of the diocesan initiative 
Powerpoint presentation)
In the final
session participants divided into deanery groups to respond to questions
posed by Fr John: what might be the next steps in their parish and in
their deanery and what they might need from the diocese to support their
Home is a Holy Place activities.
The Home is a Holy Place resource pack was launched
in the Diocese of Wrexham on Saturday, April 5th 2008 at the Loreto Centre
in Llandudno. 
the
complete 27 minute DVD that introduces and explains Home is a Holy Place
and invited to discuss their reactions in small groups before feeding back
to the assembly. In the afternoon workshops were held on two of the three
vision statements before Rev Howe invited everyone to divide up into
parish/deanery groups to discuss what stepping stones or obstacles might
be encountered using the resource.