Living the sacraments with scarce resources

SCP National Conference, 2010

14th-16th July

The Southwell and Nottingham Chapter invites members to the East Midlands to explore with us the theme “Bread for the World”.

We will look at the role and place of the eucharist in the life and mission of the church, paying attention to the diverse settings in which we, as priests, minister today, e.g. the rural multi-parish benefice, the city centre parish with an eclectic congregation or a significant multi-faith context, or perhaps a church with a wider deanery or diocesan remit.

Driving questions we hope to address include

• how do we remain faithful to the church’s vision and understanding of the eucharist when resources, both human and material, are stretched, and
• what does it mean, both theologically and practically, to sustain a eucharistic community in these varied contexts?

For the conference we will be based at Rutland Hall, on the University of Nottingham “University Park campus”, apart from the trips out detailed below.

Maps and directions can be found here, or, more specifically here.

For those who prefer a full postal address, with postcode for SatNav:

University Of Nottingham
Rutland Hall
University Park
NOTTINGHAM
NG7 2QZ

Our speakers and facilitators include

Rev'd Prof. Alison Milbank	Sr Rosemary, CHN	Rt. Rev’d Jack Nicholls	Fr Joe Kennedy

We arrive late afternoon to Rutland Hall on the University of Nottingham campus to register and settle in.

Our speakers for Wednesday evening are:

• Rev'd Prof. Alison Milbank, and
• Sr Rosemary, CHN

This is when we travel to three different contexts in which to see and experience examples of eucharistic living, to help illuminate both our own settings and those of others.

Fr Joe Kennedy, from the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, will act as a theological animateur for the day.

• In the morning we visit one of the churches in the Nottingham City centre parish of St Mary's, St Peter's and All Saints';
• The middle of the day we are at the cathedral and parish church of Southwell Minster, set in a market town, for Mass and lunch; and
• In the afternoon, we are at the parish and Shrine of Our Lady of Egmanton for Benediction, itself part of a seven parish rural benefice.

In the evening we will have our conference banquet, at which our after-dinner speaker will be Rt. Rev’d Jack Nicholls, the former Bishop of Sheffield.

We spend the morning at at St John the Baptist, Beeston, a parish church just outside the university campus.

We have

• a panel discussion on the theme, with representatives able to articulate issues from a multi-faith perspective, from the 'secular' city perspective and from an urban parish setting;
• The AGM, and
• Concelebrated Mass;

(followed by an informal, buffet style lunch) which concludes the conference.

Cost: £235 Deposit: £40

Please book by the 31st March, and pay in full as soon as possible.

Nottingham is easily accessible by rail, car and bus.

The brochure, with booking form, is available from here.

Send cheques with completed booking forms to

Fr Stephen Hippisley-Cox
The Rectory
Keyworth Rd
Wysall
Nottinghamshire
NG12 5QQ

• Nottingham City Centre
• Southwell Minster
• Our Lady of Egmanton parish church

and for our final session, mass and the AGM, on the Friday

• Beeston parish church