Summer Conference: further details

A splendid view of the college chapel amidst the town.

There is now a detailed page of the Summer Conference Here.

Mary and Martyrdom

A joyful Conference with a serious theme dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Monday 31st July 2017

Transport from airport in Nantes arranged free of charge.

18.30 Apéritif

19.00 Dinner

Tuesday 2nd August

Early morning private Masses

8.00- 8.45: Continental buffet breakfast.

From 9.00: Registration, administration, socialising.

10.00: Welcome session, with opening remarks from Ferdi McDermott, Father Mark Lawler and other members of the speakers’ panel.

10.45: Coffee

11.15: “Mary as the air that we breathe”:   The Marian spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ferdi McDermott.

12.15: Solemn High Mass, in the Extraordinary Form.

St Peter ad Vincula, and celebration of Lammas Day, with the blessing of Lammas loaves.

13.30 : Lunch

14.30: “The Marian Devotion of Father Frederick William Faber”, Father Sebastian Jones, Cong Orat.

15.30: “A liturgy for laymen: A study of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, Anthony Dickinson.

16:30 Tea

17:00 Speaker, to be announced.

18.15: Sorrowful mysteries of the Rosary

18.30: Vespers from the Little Office.

19.00 Apéritif, with musical entertainment.

19.30 Dinner

21.15: Compline

Wednesday 2nd August

Early morning private Masses

8.00- 8.30: Buffet English/continental breakfast.

8.45: Speaker to be announced.

9.30: Pontifical Mass of Our Lady in the Extraordinary Form. Celebrant to be confirmed.

11.00 – 16:00 Excursion either to St Laurent sur Sèvre or Le Château de la Chabotterie, (castle and museum dedicated to the Vendée counter-revolution.)  Details not yet finalised. Special meal.

16.00: Return coach to Chavagnes

16.30 Tea

17.00: “Our Lady’s suffering in the plan of salvation and Christian life”, speaker to be announced.

18.00: Vespers and Benediction.

19.00: Apéritif

19.30: Dinner

21.15 Compline

Thursday 4th August

Early morning private Masses

8.00- 8.45: Buffet English/continental breakfast.

9.00: “Mary in the teachings of St John Paul II”; Father Jason Jones.

10.00: “A tribute to The martyrs of the Vendée”, Ferdi McDermott.

11.00 Coffee

11.30: “Title to be confirmed”, Father Mark Lawler

12.20: Sung Mass in the Ordinary Form.

13.40: Lunch

14.40 : “The Sufferings of Mary in the Liturgy”, Gerhard Eger

16.00 : Concluding reflections, discussion, questions:

17.00: Tea

17.45: Joyful mysteries of the Rosary.

18.00: Pontifical Vespers

19.00 Aperitif

19.30 Dinner

21.15 Compline

Friday 5th August

Early morning private Masses

From 7.30-9.30; Buffet continental breakfast

Transport to airport, or stations, etc.