The National Association of Catholic Families

We are helping families to build the new civilisation of love. What we are is essentially very simple. We are Catholic families who try to give one another mutual, moral, spiritual and social support in a culture which is now at war with our values. This we do by linking committed Catholic families locally, nationally and internationally but always with the simple intention of mutual support.

We are answering the call by our Holy Father, Pope John Paul, for families to be what they are. The work of the NACF is based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Familiaris Consortio, The Holy See's Charter of the Rights of the Family and Evangelium Vitae.
If you would like to know more please visit the website at: www.catholic-family.org or contact the Nottingham group by calling Emma or Alex van Spijk on 0115 982 2766.

• Cards – mass, sympathy, get well, baptism, communion, confirmation, marriage, ordination, birthday.
• Gifts – crucifixes, statues, icons, books, rosaries, jewellery.
• Books – children’s, prayer, mass.
• Christmas – cards including charity cards, Advent calendars, nativity sets.
• Traidcraft – tea, coffee, biscuits.

Please come in and browse after Mass on Sunday. If we don’t have what you want, we will always try to get it for you. More helpers are needed so that the Holy Spirit Book Shop can be opened after 6.30pm Saturday Mass. If you would like to help out or have ideas for the shop, please contact Katie Moran on 0115 914 0960.

Quite a number of parishes throughout the world have an 'SVP conference' but for the uninitiated the following extract from our opening prayers sums up the duties of every SVP member:

Lord Jesus help us through meeting together to deepen our Vincentian friendship and answer the call every Christian receives, to seek and find those who are forgotten, and to bring your love to the suffering or deprived."

A Beacon For Us All
"Today I make an urgent plea to this nation. Do not neglect your sick and elderly. Do not turn away from the handicapped and the dying.  Do not push them to the margins of society. For if you do, you will fail to understand that they represent an important truth.  The sick, the elderly, the handicapped and the dying teach us that weakness is a creative part of human living and that suffering can be embraced with no loss of dignity.  Without the presence of these people in your midst you might be tempted to think of health, strength and power as the only important values to be pursued in life.  But the wisdom of Christ and the power of Christ are to be seen in the weakness of those who share his sufferings. Let us keep the sick and the handicapped at the centre of our lives.  Let us treasure them and recognise with gratitude the debt we owe them.   We begin by imagining that we are giving to them ; we end by realising that they have enriched us. May God bless and comfort all who suffer.  And may Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world and healer of the sick,  make his light shine through human weakness as a beacon for us and for all mankind.  Amen "

HH John Paul II-Southwark Cathedral 28th May '82

For enquiries about the Holy Spirit Conference, and for further information, telephone:
Peter Molyneux on 0115 923 5395.

SPUC campaigns for legal protection for innocent human beings from conception to natural death. Thus, we are concerned with issues such as abortion, euthanasia and embryo research.

The Nottingham Branch of SPUC meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month (except August). We provide speakers in schools, lobby MPs, run fundraising events and so on.

We are always looking for people to help out in any way. The local contact is David Paton, telephone number (0115) 923 1397. Or visit our branch website at www.spucnottingham.org.uk or email us at enquiry@spucnottingham.org.uk

Read here about the work of Fr Vincent Kanyankole from the diocese of Jinja in Uganda.

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The objective of the Burundi Project is to help young men and women in the village of Bukeye, Burundi, to learn skills such as building and carpentry by helping to fund the salaries of lay teachers at the Bukeye Professional Training Centre, which is run by Fr Emmanuel.

Visit the Burundi page. Here

Our objectives are:

• To help Catholic married women to appreciate the sacramental character, responsibilities and permanence of marriage, and to live in unselfish love observing the laws of God and His Church.
• To assist them to bring up their children as practising Catholics and public-spirited citizens.
• To teach and defend Christian values in family life and to ensure a Catholic education for their children.
• To foster vocations in life especially in Christian Marriage and Family Life and in the Priesthood and Religious Life.

Contact Mrs June Steer 0115 923 2028

We are a group of parishioners who meet 5 or 6 times each year to support the work of CAFOD. We are a long standing group founded in 1975.
Are you interested in Third World problems?
Can you help the Group raise funds?

CAFOD (The Catholic Fund for Overseas Development) began in 1962 and is now one of the largest relief and development agencies in the UK. It supports over 1,000 projects in more than 80 countries around the world, and because CAFOD works with partners it can respond quickly to urgent local needs. It also helps people set up projects that they can maintain long term thus helping people to help themselves.

CAFOD uses your donations to relieve suffering and distress in the Third World wherever the need is greatest regardless of race or religion.

We look forward to hearing from anyone who is willing to help in the Group, or you can support us by placing donations in the CAFOD BOX (at the back of the church weekends only). Please mark your donations with your intention if you want the money to go to any appeal, otherwise the money goes to the Challenge of the Year.

contact via email

The Parent, Baby & Toddler Group

This meets in the Social Centre on Thursday mornings from 10am - 12 noon. It is open to all pre-schoolers and carers for informal play, craft and singing - everyone is welcome.

Contact Caty on 07939 467840