Our Children at The Big Assembly

17 August 2010

Schools and colleges around our diocese are with the Pope this morning (17 September) for ‘The Big Assembly’.  Hundreds of pupils and staff are at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham and thousands join them watching online in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.

You can join them by watching online at the official papal visit website thepapalvisit.org.  

You’re invited to celebrate together.  Watch the Holy Father beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman live on a big screen at the Cathedral on Sunday (19 September).

Other ways to follow the papal visit online and have your say include Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

Our series of podcasts introducing us to Cardinal John Henry Newman ran througout August on cliftondiocese.com.  We heard from local Newman scholars who’ll give us an insight into life of the man Pope Benedict XVI will beatify here in England.  All the episodes are still online:
The Life of Newman
The Life of Newman - The Discussion
Newman’s Importance Today
Newman’s Importance Today - The Discussion
Newman and Education
Newman and Education - The Discussion
Newman and Laity
Newman and Laity - The Discussion

Another of our podcast series takes you to the places where Cardinal John Henry Newman lived, preached, and where he’ll beatified by the Holy Father.  All episodes of 'In the Footsteps of Newman' are still online:
Maryvale
Oscott College
Newman's room
The Oratory
Cofton Park

Clifton Diocese Papal Visit Coordinator Father Michael McAndrew visited local people preparing for the papal visit.  All episodes of 'Father Michael Meets' are still online:
Father Richard McKay
The Connors family
Hugh Greenhalf
Bernice Pascal
Oisin Hawes

Bath priest Father Peter Cornwell presented a podcast series on Cardinal John Henry Newman for cliftondiocese.com.  Father Peter has a particular insight into Cardinal Newman as he’s a former Vicar of Newman’s old church in Oxford - the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.  All the podcasts are still online:
Getting to Know Newman
Newman the Pastor
Battered Newman
To Live is to Change - Newman the Thinker
Journey’s End

You can also make your donation towards the visit at the official website.  It's simple, secure and direct.

Our striking posters, displayed in all our parishes and many other places, welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom are available to all.  You can download your copy in the multimedia panel on the right and put them up to welcome the Holy Father and his historic visit.