Catholic Youth Ministry "The Towers" in Buckden

29/04/2023

Vocation Sunday.

St Robert Southwell, an English Martyr, Catholic priest, poet, Elizabethan. He was executed at Tyburn in London for his priesthood. This film presents his li...

24/08/2022

Invitation for you. Next year, 1-6 August 2023 there will be World Youth Days in Lisbon [Portugal] preceded by pre-programme [26-31 July]. Our parish of St Hugh in Buckden wants to send two persons for this event. We search for persons of age 18-35, visible in our church community, it means involved in our parish life. Parish will help financially but expect also financial participation of those sent. Total expenses: more or less £2000 per person. If interested, contact Fr Krzysztof.

25/06/2022

Claretian Summer Camp (Open for 17+) @ Historical and beautiful Buckden Towers
Faith, Music, Walks into the fields, indoor and outdoor games, fun and friendship & many more exciting activities...
Dates: 27th July to 29th July 2022
Welcome to all the 17 + also we need some DBS checked volunteers to make this a memorable experience. If interested please fill the form below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r1Xkx2wMYMNevh_Ev1CDUhnOqbYBY-V0aZCi2gdp898/edit

04/06/2022

Holy Spirit, Lord of light,
Come, thou light of all that live!
Happy Pentecost!

26/05/2022

The Claretian Province of Fatima is organising the 'Camino de Santiago' (Pilgrimage to Santiago) for the youth from 31st July to August 10th 2022.
It involves walking about 200 kms in 7 days.
The cost is 220 Euros per person (Doesn't include the flight tickets)
Please use the link below to enroll.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kkZClGImDG15AZggGP8coYbvlO_YJ16gQ_P55ItRMHw/edit?ts=623b8f6d =ACYDBNgzESsGyQP6PRCnNPcG3l6BQCWcQPqSvt3e5NbDeUXCkpiovG5T0x5U09hrSK8jrZs

23/05/2022

Youth ministry. Let faith bring light into your life with inspirational workshops, music and prayer at Glow: Cambridge. For those aged 12-18 at Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1JR. Sunday 19th June 2022 from 12:30 to 5:30pm. An afternoon of faith and fun with the Ignite Team. Book your place https://www.rcdea.org.uk/youth/events/

01/05/2022

May - month of Mary

23/04/2022

JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU.
Today we want to focus on the aspect of love known as MERCY because this Sunday is known as Divine Mercy Sunday – a feast declared by Pope John Paul II in the year 2000. This feast came about through St. Faustina, a Polish nun who through her conversations with Jesus brought about the picture that we now know as the Divine Mercy painting and also the prayer The Divine Chaplet of Mercy – she wrote that Jesus told her:
Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: "Jesus, I trust in You" (in Polish: "Jezu, ufam Tobie"). I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and then throughout the world. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.
Things were not easy for Faustina, the priest that heard her confessions asked that she be examined psychiatrically due to her claims that she had these conversations with Jesus. Faustina passed the required tests and was declared of sound mind.
St. Faustina kept a diary of all of this and these were then published but the Holy Office issued a notification that forbade circulation of "images and writings that promote devotion to Divine Mercy in the forms proposed by Sister Faustina" The negative judgment of the Holy Office was based both on a faulty French or Italian translation of the diary, and on theological difficulties such as the claim that Jesus had promised complete remission of sin for certain devotional acts without specifying whether the forgiveness would be obtained directly or through undertaking reception of the sacraments, and what may have been thought to be excessive concentration on Faustina herself. The ban remained in place for almost two decades.
However, in later years a bishop in Poland took it upon himself and obtained the relevant permission to look into this and put the documents in order and presented them to the Holy Office.
Then, on 15 April 1978, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a new notification, signed by the Prefect and the Secretary of the Congregation, that rescinded the previous one, reversing the ban on circulation of Faustina's work.
That bishop was later to be elected Pope John Paul II who on 30th April 2000 canonized Faustina and he also declared the feast of Divine Mercy Sunday therefore fulfilling that Jesus told her that he wanted the Divine Mercy image to be "solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter; that Sunday is to be the Feast of Mercy
As we focus on Mercy, love and forgiveness – let us go back to a scene in last weeks gospel, the two criminals crucified with Jesus – the one who asks, ‘Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom’ – Jesus replies, ‘Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise’
The Today that Jesus infers, is for all of us – Whenever we turn to Jesus and say, ‘Jesus remember me’ – our Today begins… We need to discover our own TODAY of divine mercy - - the forgiveness and love of God. JESUS – I TRUST IN YOU

20/02/2022

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too; to the man who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from the man who robs you. Treat others as you would like them to treat you. Luke 6:27-31

06/02/2022

When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ ‘Master,’ Simon replied, ‘we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled the two boats to sinking point. {Luke 5:4-7]

27/01/2022

1 February, we celebrate the memorial of Blessed Philip of Jesus Munárriz Azcona, presbyter, and companions, religious and martyrs

184 members of the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary were martyred in the religious persecution against the Church in Mexico (1927) and in Spain (1936-1939). Blessed Andres Sola Molist was arrested and later executed together with a diocesan priest and a layman on April 25, 1927 at the ranch of San Joaquín, next to the Mexican city of León. Blessed Philip de Jesus Munárriz Azcona, Superior of the "Martyr Seminary" of Barbastro (Huesca), received the martyrdom along with 50 missionaries in the month of August of 1936; Blessed Joseph Maria Ruiz Cano and 22 missionaries, killed in the first days of the civil war in Tarragona, Fernan Caballero (Ciudad Real) and Sigüenza (Guadalajara); Blessed Mathew Casals Mas, Teofilo Casajus Alduan, Fernando Saperas Aduja and 106 martyrs from the communities of Barcelona, Castro Urdiales (Cantabria), Cervera (Lleida), Lleida, Sabadell (Barcelona), Valencia, and Vic-Solsona, during the same persecution. All of them remained faithful to their missionary vocation and gave clear testimony of forgiveness to their executioners, love of the Heart of Mary and the Church, concern for the poor and fervent missionary zeal.
https://slideplayer.com/slide/9372172/

22/01/2022

Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in him, returned to Galilee; and his reputation spread throughout the countryside. He taught in their synagogues and everyone praised him.
He came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written:
The spirit of the Lord has been given to me,
for he has anointed me.
He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor,
to proclaim liberty to captives
and to the blind new sight,
to set the downtrodden free,
to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour. (Luke 4:14-19)