This summer you can enjoy the CPW experience from the comfort of your own home. Our very first Virtual Summer Week will run from Saturday 8th August until Saturday 15th August.
The event is free to attend and all our welcome. A full agenda is below. We hope you can join.
The virtual week will culminate in a celebration of our 75th Anniversary, to which you are all invited. Time, age and distance are no barrier to our online celebrations so lets amaze ourselves, rejoice, and give Glory to God all at the same time!
How to Attend
To register to access all the online events, click here or copy this link into your web browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdeGoqDwsGt1UZqGhCITQPkpVjAAKLjt_
After registering, you will receive an email confirming your booking, including a specific link for you to access the event. Please take care to save this email as this will be the link you use to access all the online events. Please look out for further emails which give more details about the programme.
If you encounter technical issues, send an email with a full description to websitecpw@gmail.com and we will do our best to help.
Agenda for the Virtual Week
This is the agenda for the week. Sessions which are marked as LIVE can be accessed via Zoom. You will need to register using the link above to receive the link to the live Zoom events.
The sessions marked ON-DEMAND will be pre-recorded so that you can watch them at a time which is convenient to you. Links to the recordings of these events will be included in the 9am daily update email.
You only need to register once to receive the daily update emails which will contain all the links and details for each day’s events.
A large-text formatted version of the programme is available to download here (please be aware this versions prints on three pages). To print a version on one page, please use the one-page programme above (click the arrow in the right hand corner to view and save the PDF).
Speakers
We have some great speakers lined up for the virtual week. You can read a bit more about some of them here. We’re really excited that the speakers have all agreed to participate and we can’t wait for their sessions. We hope you are too!
Diarmuid O'Murchu
Diarmuid O'Murchu, a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, is a social psychologist. Most of his working life has been in social ministry, predominantly in London, UK. In that capacity he has worked as a couple's counsellor, in bereavement work, AIDS-HIV counselling, and, in more recent times, with homeless people and refugees.
His best known books include Quantum Theology (1996 - revised in 2004), Ancestral Grace (2008), Jesus in the Power of Poetry (2009), Christianity's Dangerous Memory (2011), In the Beginning was the Spirit (2012), God in the Midst of Change (2013) and On Being a Postcolonial Christian (2014). He now lives in Dublin, Ireland.
Dr Ally Kateusz
Ally Kateusz is Research Associate at Wijngaards Institute of Catholic Research in London. She is a cultural historian specializing in the intersection of women and religion in early Christian art and texts.
Her 2019 illustrated book with Palgrave Macmillan, Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership, is open access. Her most recent book was published early this year, an edited volume with T&T Clark Bloomsbury, Resurrecting the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam.
Henrietta Cullinan
Henrietta Cullinan is peace activist, teacher and writer. She has been part of the London Catholic Worker since 2005, volunteering at a soup kitchen in Hackney and joining direct action campaigns on migrant rights, and resistance to nuclear weapons and the arms trade. As a peace activist, she has been able to visit Afghanistan and Pakistan and spend time in the Jungle camp in Calais. In December 2014 she travelled to Kabul with Voices for Creative Nonviolence UK to visit the Afghan Peace Volunteers. You can read her blog posts about this time here.
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis she has been part of small team visiting a shelter for homeless women. She converted to Catholicism in her twenties.
John Paul de Quay
John Paul de Quay runs the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton’s The Journey to 2030 project which is a campaign run by the Ecological Conversion Group. It aims to help us as a Church act to tackle our ecological crisis and climate change through community action.
Fr Derek Reeve
Derek discovered Christianity at 10 and became a Roman Catholic at 15. Wanting to become a priest, he spent a year with the Franciscans and 18 months with a community of Canons Regular, before doing National Service nursing in the R.A.F. Following a year at Osterley and acceptance by the Bishop of Portsmouth, he was sent to Saint-Sulpice for training, which he describes as ‘one of the greatest of all my strokes of good fortune.’
Derek was ordained in 1957 and spent 10 years at Portsmouth Cathedral and 37 years as a parish priest. He built a post-Vatican II community while also being a chaplain to a local Psychiatric Hospital, Prison, and University. Derek retired at 75 and is one of the founders of A Call to Action (ACTA).
David Wells
David has contributed to the production of catechetical resources in the UK and North America and spoken at more than 300 conferences worldwide. He is a regular contributor to the Religious Education Congress at Anaheim in California, where over 30,000 delegates gather to hear some of the world’s most prolific religious writers.
He has published two books, The Reluctant Disciple and The Grateful Disciple, both available from Redemptorist Publications. Bishop Malcolm McMahon Chair of the Department for Education and Formation in the Bishop’s Conference described David as a “Remarkable and gifted speaker.”
David is married to Alison and they have three grown up children and a very badly behaved dog. In his free time he enjoys spending time on the River Exe dodging the river ferries.
75th Anniversary Appeal
Support CAFOD's Covid-19 Fund with Us
CPW has a long history of fundraising for charities that support communities most in need.
Since we haven't been able to fundraise on physical weeks this year, we wanted to ensure that in our 75th year we supported causes that rang true to our founders and which ring true to our values today.
For this reason we have decided to launch a 75th Anniversary Appeal to support CAFOD's Covid-19 Fund. The fund will help local experts and community volunteers reach the most vulnerable communities on earth before the virus does.
As part of our fundraising activities we're asking you to complete an activity which involves either CPW or the number 75 and then donate a multiple of 75 (e.g. £7.50 or multiples of £7.50) to the appeal.
You can donate using this link: https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/13694
You can choose the activity but here are some suggestions for all ages!
Bake 75 biscuits
Walk 75 laps of your garden
Do 75 jumps on a trampoline or skipping rope
Write a poem with 75 words
Go 75 minutes without asking for anything
Identify 75 sounds sounds in 5 mins
Sit still and silent in quiet contemplation for 75 minutes
Paint a picture of your favourite CPW memory
Write a poem about CPW
Mow the letters CPW into your lawn
Go for a run, walk or cycle and try to map out the word CPW
We'd them like you to take a photo of your creation, activity or achievement and share it with us by emailing catholicpeoplesweeks@gmail.com. We will collate all the images and share them in a glorious online celebration at the 75th Celebration on 15th August!
So, what will you do?