Celebrate vision

CELEBRATE is a Holiday Conference for all the family, organised by a team from Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and open to Christians from every part of the Body of Christ.

Celebrate seeks to:

  • Provide an atmosphere of friendship and close fellowship, thereby promoting a real sense of community for formation and mission.
  • Celebrate the Liturgy in the best possible way for the people present.
  • Offer the best available teaching, based on the Scriptures and the teaching documents of the Catholic Church.
  • Include among those invited as speakers men and women from Protestant, Pentecostal and non-denominational charismatic churches and fellowships, so that we benefit from their gifts and thereby promote unity amongst Christians
  • Hold to the central truths of the Catholic faith without emphasising those devotions which are a matter of personal choice.
  • Provide spiritually for children, teenagers and young adults in streams or groups according to age or academic year.
  • Show our young people in particular that it’s exciting, fun and challenging to be a Christian today.
  • Encourage ongoing friendship amongst those who attend Celebrate events
  • Give everyone the freedom to be fully charismatic, while remaining sensitive to those not coming from this faith experience
  • Offer Baptism in the Holy Spirit & Life in the Spirit Seminars
  • Encourage creative activities and use drama, mime, art and music to emphasise the Gospel message
  • Invite everyone to participate in lively praise and worship, and include the exercise of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
  • Offer personal prayer by trained prayer teams
  • Use money raised in the Celebrate offering to sponsor training and development for individuals, communities, groups and special ministries.
  • Promote and support an awareness of social, moral, ethical and justice issues, and provide funds from the Offering for Christian work in disaster areas.
  • Support financially and practically Christian organisations which share a similar vision, and work for renewal in the church.