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Please complete and return to RE Office as soon as possible EXPLORING THE PRAYER OF THE CHURCH Please enrol the following participants on this course NORES DIOCESE OF NORTHAMPTON NAME/S – 13 MAY BLOCK CAPITALS 2017 Bishop’s Council for Catechesis Exploring the Prayer of the Church Fr John Hemer MHM

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Cost: £5 per person for the day. I enclose a cheque for £______payable to RE SERVICE  13 May 2017, 10.30am- 3.30pm OR Please invoice the parish 

Return this form as soon as possible to: Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church Hall NORES, Parish Centre, Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Westbourne Road, Luton, LU4 8JD Tel: 01582 723312 (Damien Hall), High Street, E mail: [email protected] www.nores.org.uk Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 9AA Our Theme Practical arrangements Please bring a packed lunch. Tea & coffee will be provided. Fr John Hemer will help us explore the two main elements of the Prayer of the Church - Morning and Evening Prayer. The Cost: £5 per person payable in advance or on the day. day will be suitable for everyone interested in deepening their prayer and that of their community, whether or not Timetable they already regularly pray any part of the Divine Office: Arrivals from 10.15am parishioners, liturgical ministers, catechists, religious, 10.45 am Prayer deacons and priests. 11.00 am Exploring Morning Prayer 12.30 pm Lunch (please bring a packed lunch) By exploring the riches of these prayers which are so 1.30 pm Exploring Evening Prayer steeped in the Scriptures, we will be following the 3.00 pm Praying Evening Prayer of the Church encouragement given by Pope Francis at the conclusion of 3.30 pm Depart (at the latest) the Year of Mercy: Our Speaker: Father John Hemer MHM “Through Sacred Scripture, kept alive by the faith of the Born in inner city Liverpool in 1957, Fr John studied for Church, the Lord continues to speak to his Bride, showing her priesthood first at Upholland and then in the Netherlands the path she must take to enable the Gospel of salvation to and London. Ordained priest for the Mill Hill Missionaries in reach everyone. I greatly desire that God’s word be 1983, he worked as a missionary in Pakistan, involved in increasingly celebrated, known and disseminated, so that primary evangelisation. Moving to Africa, he became Parish the mystery of love streaming from this font of mercy may Priest of a huge rural parish in Kenya and did two spells in be ever better understood…” Uganda, one in a mission and one teaching in a seminary, Pope Francis, Misericordia et Misera 7 following this with a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome 1992-96. Booking: Having taught at the Missionary Institute in London for ten Please let us know if you are coming to help us prepare. years and Oscott College, he is now on the staff at Allen Hall Please see postal details on the booking form on the back and also lectures occasionally at the seminary at Wonersh cover or alternatively please send in names via phone 01582 and at Heythrop College. Over the years he has given 723312 (Extension 6) or e-mail [email protected] retreats, lectures and courses throughout this country and internationally.