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Job Title: Youth Leadership Coordinator
Employer: CAFOD
Salary: Salary: £34,315 - £39,338 p/a
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Job Title: Lay Chaplain
Employer: Mayfield School
Salary: Mayfield School Salary Scale - dependent on exp & quals
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Job Title: Retreat Team Volunteer
Employer: Savio House, Salesians of Don Bosco
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Job Title: Gap Year Volunteer
Employer: Kenelm Youth Trust
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Job Title: Youth Mission Team Volunteer
Employer: Ignite Youth Mission - Diocese of East Anglia
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Job Title: Gap Year Volunteer
Employer: CAFOD
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Job Title: Team Volunteer
Employer: St Cassian's, Kintbury
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Job Title: Gap Year Team
Employer: Animate Youth Ministries, Archdiocese of Liverpool
Read moreResources at Random
BBC Witness, Archbishop Romero
An interesting little video that gives some of this context and history of Archbishop Romero, due for beatification later this year
Footprints
Flame Congress 2012 – Fr. Christopher Jamison
Vocationcast video on Prison Ministry
WingClips: Inspirational Movie Clips Site
This can be a really helpful site for pulling together inspirations clips to fit a theme! The site is here.
Pope Francis Cartoon
Evidence: Are You Catholic?
Prayer #2 – A bit more about time
In the first post in this series, we cautioned against Read more
Andy Severyn School Workshops
Andy Severyn offers music and worship workshops in schools, find out more on his site here.
How To Pray The Rosary
A Song for the Year of Mercy from CJM
Inspired by Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter Misericordiae Vultus, CJM Music has produced a song available for free download.
Free Prayers, Resources and Reflections from Loyola Press
Free resources with prayers and reflections from Loyola Press in the US. If you go back to the root menu youll find more advent bits and bobs.
Latest Resources
Resources to explore Synod and Christus Vivit
New resources created by young adults unpackage the Synod Final Document and Pope Francis’s exhortation, and offer reflections for youth workers.
Three Friends and the Miracle Man – Easter resources for younger children
The Bible Society’s new animated video takes Jairus’s daughter and the boy with the five loaves and two fishes on a journey where they discover who Jesus really is.
The video is on YouTube, and you can download it free from the Bible Society website, in English or Welsh. There is also a script and all-age service guide to enable you to explore the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and bring Three Friends and the Miracle Man to life at your church.
Journey through Lent with Missio – Secondary age
Missio’s resources for Lent 2019 include reflections that explore key words and concepts from the season, linking them with themes and actions that young people in the Secondary school age range can readily engage with and respond to. The three reflections have leaders’ notes and a set of PowerPoint slides, and feature the story of a young person supported by Missio. Each reflection can be delivered within 10 minutes – with or without the slides.
There is also a simple and accessible Stations of the Cross resource, which encourages young people to reflect on the lessons communicated through Jesus’ journey to the cross and apply them to contemporary issues. The resource is presented as a PowerPoint with leaders’ notes incorporated that suggest alternative ways to use the Stations.
Lent resources include Stations of the Cross for primary
This year’s Lent resources from Mission Together include a Stations of the Cross liturgical resource for the first time. Read more
Give it up – Lent resources from CAFOD
CAFOD has released a range of resources and guides for the ‘Give it up’ Lent campaign, including video, assemblies, prayer and liturgy, fundraising ideas; an ‘action a day’ calendar, and templates for publicising school events and fundraising.in newsletters and to local media.
Explore world changing principles with Million Minutes
Million Minutes develops new and innovative projects that help empower young people, inspired by the principles of Catholic social teaching, to reach out to those in need. Pictured above is Amy (from For Jimmy) a recipient of siLENT.
They’re offering assemblies and workshops to Catholic schools in England and Wales over the coming year to encourage young people to take an active role in social action and inspire them to change their world – arrange yours now!
Catechetical lessons for WYD prep & other uses
Panama2019 has produced a set of catechetical lessons to help prepare young people spiritually for January’s World Youth Day. The lessons can be downloaded as pdfs, and cover a range of topics and a variety of activities, following the ‘see, judge. act’ model.
Mission Together Advent 2018 resources
Mission Together has created new liturgies, assemblies and craft activities for 2018 to help primary age groups journey through Advent.
Refugee resources for young people
CAFOD has a range of resources for helping young people (secondary age) to engage with the issues around the global refugee crisis, including the short animation above.
News & Blog
Catholic Gap Years in the UK
Catholic Residential Retreat Centres across the country are still recruiting for volunteers for September 2019.
As a retreat team volunteer, you’ll gain valuable experience working with children and young people. You’ll develop skills in team work, organisation and leadership that will benefit you in whatever future career you choose, or give you the experience you need to change direction from your earlier path. You’ll enjoy the companionship of a community of young adults, and make lifelong friends. You’ll grow in confidence and maturity, have the opportunity to reflect on the next steps in your life, and deepen your faith. Read more
Compass ‘School of Discernment’ for young adults – July 2019
We’re all thinking more about the importance of discernment since the Synod, and this summer, Compass is leading a summer school from Monday 22 – Friday 26 July 2019, to help young Catholic adults find their true path to living life joyfully and faithfully.
The event will be held at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, and it’s open to people aged 18-35. The cost for full board for the five day event is £150, and bursaries are available.
International short course in Leading the New Evangelisation
St Mary’s University, Twickenham in partnership with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) is offering an International Faith Formation Leadership Programme from – .
The programme is aimed at Catholic school leaders and teachers, including religious education teachers, and Church leaders, youth ministers,parish educators and all those who work in Catholic schools on behalf of the Church.
Your young people deserve to be celebrated!
Celebrating Young People Awards 2019
Who will you nominate?
On 3 July 2019 young people from across the country will gather in London’s West End for the Celebrating Young People Awards. Cardinal Vincent Nichols will be presenting this year’s Pope Francis Award. The awards – now in their fourth year – are organised by Million Minutes and see hundreds of young people nominated in six categories, each celebrating a different aspect of Catholic Social Teaching lived out in social action. Read more
Go siLENT to shout out for young people
Lent is only a few weeks away, so why not sign up for siLENT 2019, as a school or parish group, or just on your own? You’ll find some stillness in our frantic world, and the sponsorship you raise will support young people in transforming their lives and their world.
Nominations now open for 2019 Celebrating Young People Awards!
Nominations are now open for the fourth Celebrating Young People Awards. The awards – powered by Catholic charity Million Minutes – honour the achievements of young people across the country who make our communities better places. There are eight award categories, which take their names from Catholic social teaching and recognise the enormous, often unseen, social action of young people. Above: Last year’s Pope Francis Award recipient was Aaron, from Loreto College Manchester. Read more
