In this report on the online adult spring weekend held on zoom in March 2021, Ted Monks writes about how the group answered the following questions: What have we learned about prophetic action, what might help us distinguish between true and false prophets, are we likely to project our views on times past, what role do we have as individuals, Church, CPW?

Paul Marley reflects on a challenging and instructive evening in which the vast scale of time and space allowed us to explore questions beyond our comfort zones.

CPW Member Bill Phillips thanks Professor Monica Grady for a wonderfully informative and stimulating evening at the CPW Autumn Lecture on 22nd October 2020.

“CPW is my favourite part of the summer holidays, so when I was told that it was cancelled, I was really upset. Then I was told that it was going to be held over Zoom and, to be honest, I didn’t want to do it. I thought it wouldn’t work and I didn’t want to talk to people I miss and can’t hug but, after the first session, I was so happy that I had joined.”

“What a wonderful week! How so worthwhile it has been for all of us privileged to be part of it. Thank God for people of vision in 1945 who set in motion such a wonderful “CPW Way” for our continuing re-discovery of the beauty and wonder of Him who walks shoulder to shoulder alongside us. This week has been a truly “HUMAN” experience of authentic Incarnation embodied in a Zoomed week in which young and old have celebrated together.”

“CPW is the embodiment of joy, it is a community which has refused to give into the challenges of a pandemic. I felt myself being lifted up, reminded that God is with me and in that I should feel an overwhelming joy knowing this. I was reminded of the reason I joined CPW, the joy and enthusiasm I experienced through a CPW family in my parish. I found this joy infectious and wanted my family to experience it also.”

On the 5th day of the virtual week, on a day titles ‘wake up’, three speakers gave us moving and vivid examples of how they are responding to calls for justice, peace, and the integrity of the earth within their own lives and the organisations for which they worked.

A speaker told us about many families in Leicester who were struggling to survive – refugees and asylum seekers who are now struggling to navigate the UK benefits system, access food points and ensure they are obtaining the assistance to which they are entitled.

Dr Ally Kateusz is an art historian, specialising in the intersection of women and religion. In her report on Dr Kateusz’s talk, Mary Ring describes how Ally uses her research to depict that Jesus left women followers as equals: powerful leaders who preached, prayed publicly, healed, evangelized and baptised.

On CPW’s first virtual week, Derek Reeve spoke on ‘The Future of the Church’. In this article Bill Phillips summarises Derek’s thoughts and arguments.

The first speaker to present at the Virtual Summer week was Diarmuid O’Murchu, a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order and a social psychologist who has spent most of his working life in social ministry. Read the report on his input here.

When CPW’s summer weeks were cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, the undeterred CPW team got together to stage the first ever online CPW, using Zoom. In this article Sam Corcoran gives his review of CPW’s first virtual week!

During this time when churches have been closed, many of us have been finding different ways to attend Mass. In this blog, Patrica Worden reflects on the subject of exile and asks: ‘Are we missing an opportunity to rethink how we celebrate the Eucharist?’