Celebrate 2008 Weekends
Welcome to the St. Albans
Celebrate Weekend, 2008
17th & 18th May, 2008
Nicholas Breakspear School, St Albans
Celebrate is a Family
Holiday Conference organised by a team from Catholic
Charismatic Renewal, and open to Christians from every part
of the Body of Christ
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Dear Friends
A warm welcome to the St Albans CELEBRATE
2008 Weekend website. Our 2008 Weekend is now over and was
a great success. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. We hope
you agree that our speakers were inspiring, our workshops fun, yet challenging,
and the whole event was Spirit filled. Please join with us in
thanking all of our speakers and workshop leaders, and praying for them that
their ministry continues. Pray too for Steve Murray, for Rise, for Eamonn
and Dominic and their worship band, and for all those who led Children's
and Young Adults Streams. We were blessed with fantastic catering from Bar
Espresso, and a massive thank you to all of you who took turns in tirelessly
washing up! Thanks too, to Philip Jacztca, Barry Sullivan and Debbie Stevens
of Nicholas Breakspear School. Our special thanks to all our priests and
religious this weekend, especially Cardinal Cormac, Fr Charles MSc, and many
others.
Please keep in touch through this website ....... we'll continue
to update you on other events, inlcuding the Brighton and Bristol weekends,
which are still to come, and also Celebrate 2009!
Photos - Plenty of pictures
to look at - just scroll down this page!
CDs/Recordings - You can
order recordinsg of the talks from the St Albans weekend from Agape Ministries
- in a couple of days we'll include a link here to enable you to download
a booking form - please bear with us.
The St. Albans Core Team Vincent Turner,
Joan D'Andrea, Tim Stevens, Louisa Grundy,
Stephen Weaver, Emily Davis, Mario
D’Andrea, Espe Fuentes
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Registration!
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Nicholas
Breakspear School
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The Bookshop
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The "Cafe"
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The Cardinal
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All 480
of us!
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Jenny
Baker
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Toni,
from Goodnews Books & Audio
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Eamonn
& the Worship Team
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The young
people at our Mass
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Children's
streams
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John
Vaughan Neil
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Rise
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A David
Wells workshop
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Children's
streams
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RISE
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Children's
streams
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The Cardinal
celebrating Mass
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Tim &
Charles
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One of
our Children's streams, and the hats they made!
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Sunday
Mass
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Steve
and Jenny
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Dave
Payne
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Gerard,
Steve & Emily
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The Venue
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Nicholas
Breakspear School
Web: Click Here
Colney Heath Lane, St
Albans
AL4 0TT Herts.
Map
Click Here to view in new window
Catering/Meals
Included in
your conference fee is a simple lunch of soup or a filled baguette
on both days. On Saturday we expect to provide a hot two course meal.
Tea & coffee will be available throughout both days.
Celebrate Weekend Contact:
Vincent Turner,
107, Mead Way,
Bushey, WD23 2DJ
Tel: 07703 443110
email:
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Saturday
Programme
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9.00
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Registration
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9.20
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Streams Begin |
9.30
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Welcome and
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Praise & Worship
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10.15
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Mass
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Break
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11.30
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Talk 1
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12.30
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Lunch
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14.30
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Workshops |
15.45
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Break
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16.00
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Workshops
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17.15
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Supper |
19.00
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Praise
& Worship
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and Talk 2
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20.30
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Prayer
Time
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21.15
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Depart
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Sunday Programme
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9.00
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Registration
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9.20
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Streams Begin |
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Praise & Worship |
10.00
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Talk 3 |
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Break
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11.15
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Workshops
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12.30
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Lunch
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Talk 4 |
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Break |
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Family Mass |
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Depart
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St Albans, within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster,
and around 
22 miles (35km) north
of London, was originally named Verulamium
by the Ancient British, Catuvellauni tribe, but took
the name from St. Alban, Britain's first martyr.
Alban lived (at some time during the 3rd century) in the Roman
city of Verulamium. Although he was then a worshipper of Roman gods including the emperor,
he gave shelter to a Christian priest fleeing from persecution.
Influenced by the priest's prayer and teaching he became a Christian. When the
authorities discovered the priest's hiding place Alban exchanged
clothes with him. The priest escaped and Alban was bound and taken
before the judge.
The judge was furious at the deception, and ordered that Alban
should receive the punishment due to the priest, if he had indeed
become a Christian - execution by beheading.
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We're always delighted by the
number of children and young people at CELEBRATE. In 2007, under
25s accounted for over 40% of all Celebrators. 2008 should be no different.
The streams will be divided into the following groups
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Crèche
Ages 0-3
(to be accompanied by an adult)
Information to follow
"Genesis"
Nursery & Reception
Ages 3-4
Games, songs, arts and crafts, videos and story time, all to learn more
about God’s great love for us!
FireWorks
Years 1, 2
We’ll have games, crafts, praise and worship with the great songs. Apart
from our own fantastic presence, we will also have some special guests
and of course we will learn more about the Holy Spirit!
Power Puff People!
Years 3, 4
We're going to be looking at how we can spread God’s love to everyone,
because were all filled with God’s love and power through the Holy Spirit.
Were going to have lots of fun art, games, songs, Children’s Liturgy, drama
and prayer.
Please bring: a painting apron, a coat (with
your name in!)
Sky High Yrs 5-6
Ever wanted to change
the world? The super squad we've got this year are going to find out how.
With a mixture of activities, games and challenges, we are going to explore
how we can go sky high with the Holy Spirit. Love in Christ from Luke,
Jenny, Greg, Terry and Emily.
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Kaleidoscope! Yrs 7-8
Through games, drama, sign language, art, music and sharing we will journey
through the weekend and go deeper in our relationship with God! We'll have
a chance to make new friends and to give thanks to God for the many blessings
that He has poured into our lives. [Don't forget to bring your Bible!!!
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Populus
Deus Yrs
9-10
It means People of God and that is who we are. Fired up and ready
to take on the enemy. Come prepared to get into training for the biggest
adventure of your life. You’ll do and see things this weekend that
you will never do or see again. We are a People who are going to make
a change in the world. See you there, Sarah, David, Lizzie & Martin.
LIFE?
Yrs 11+
... I have set before
you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you
and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen
to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will
give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers... (Dt
30: 19-20 -What does it mean for us to 'choose life' as young adults in
a society today that throws 'life' at us in all shapes and forms? Is my
faith my lifestyle?
A time to explore together the challenges & fulfilment of a life
lived through Him, with Him and in Him.
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All the
teams will include experienced youth leaders who have been previous celebrate
conferences. More information to follow
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Speakers, Worship Leaders, Drama, Mime, Workshop
Leaders & Other Ministries
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Speakers
Our
key speakers at the St. Albans Celebrate weekend
will be Charles
Whitehead, Jenny Baker, David Payne, and John Vaughan-Neil all of
whom will be well
known to regular Celebrators
Worship and Music
Praise & Worship will be led by Eamonn
and Dominic and their band.
Celebrants
On Saturday,
our celebrants will be Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Mgr Mark O'Toole,
(rector of Allen Hall), Fr Charles Sweeney MSC
(Ss A&S)and Fr Tim O'Connor (Our Lady & St Vincent, Potters
Bar) and on the Sunday, Fr Mark White CP (St Joseph's, Highgate)
Mime and
Drama
Steve Murray and RISE will both
be providing inspirational drama for the the main conference
Workshops
Scroll down further for details
Other Ministries
We'll have Toni and Gerard of Good News Books for
all your books, tapes CDs, and DVDs, and Cafod and CASE
will be at the weekend too
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Charles
Whitehead
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David
Payne
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John Vaughan-Neil
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Jenny
Baker
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Eamonn
Pugh
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Dominic
Watts
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Cardinal
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
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Mgr Mark
O'Toole
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Fr. Charles
Sweeney MSC
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Fr Tim
O'Connor
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Fr Mark
White CP
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Steve
Murray
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Good
News
Books
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Agape
Ministries
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Rise
Productions
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Workshops
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Details
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Location
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Saturday Times
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Sunday
Times
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FA Cup Final
Peter Berners-Lee
At the interval “Good News in a Nutshell” Get the basics
in under 5 minutes and don't miss the footy. You can watch the football
and tell everyone you went to a workshop.
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The Hall
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14.45
- 17.00
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Not on Sunday
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Laity Today
Charles Whitehead will lead us to examine the role of the laity in
the Church today. How can we serve each other and the wider community
by our active participation in the life of our Parish?
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Room A
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14.30
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11.15
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Change me Lord
In this workshop ohn John Vaughan Neil explores whether we've really heard the Good News, and how to
come alive in Jesus.
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Room B
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16.00
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11.15
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God -
A Father for You
Mark Gyde
will explore Scripture to find the truth about Our
Father’s love for us.
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Room C
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14.30
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Not on Sunday
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Living
Simply
Livesimply is a
way to declutter and live a simpler and more spiritual life. This workshop
led by Deborah Purfield, a CAFOD volunteer, will look at how we can
rise to this challenge.
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Room D
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16.00
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11.15
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Our Best Kept Secret
For Catholics, the
Good News is quite often something we keep quiet about. However, our Church
has urged us to engage with the urgent task of proclaiming it. This workshop
will offer an introduction to the principles and practices of Catholic evangelization
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Room E
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The Rosary-Part
1
A practical workshop for anyone
who would like to make their own all-twine knotted Rosary. Mike White
a member of the Rosary Army a Catholic apostolate dedicated to making, praying
and giving away all-twine knotted Rosaries and encouraging others to do the
same. All materials provided and help and guidance is given.
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Room F
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14.30
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Not on Sunday
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The Rosary-Part 2
The session will
start with a 35 minute video talk on the Power of the Rosary, which traces
the history of the Rosary and provides a detailed explanation of the essentials
of meditating on the Mysteries of Jesus Christ’s life while praying the
Rosary. The workshop will conclude by praying a Rosary together
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Room F
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Not on Saturday
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11.16
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Rise Drama
Drama adds an extra
dimension to our liturgy and Worship. Helen Martin and her
team will help us to understand how a simple presentation can make Scripture
more real.
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Room M
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14.30
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CaFE
Nickie Whitehead works for CaFE which produces
top quality media resources that are inspiring and practical and adapt to
the needs of individual parishes. The aim is to enable Catholics to become
more enthusiastic about their faith. Come and learn more about how to liven
up your parish!
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Room H
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14.30
and also at
16.00
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Not on Sunday |
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