News & Events

This section is updated with news and events, and includes the link to our regular newsletter. 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS  

Event Bookings www.canonesses.co.uk/event-bookings 

Annual Mass for the Dead at New Hall Chapel on
Saturday 4th November 2017 at 2.00pm

At 74 Howe Close, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3XD.  
Each is 10am - 3pm, please come for the day or call in for part of the day -
bring a packed lunch if staying all day, tea and coffee provided.
All welcome and it would be helpful to know that you are coming if possible. 
Please call 01206 867296 for further information.  
Or contact crssuk@canonesses.co.uk 

Scripture Study - 

Scripture Courses:-

Chelmsford, Blessed Sacrament Church Parish Hall, Melbourne Avenue.
Chelmsford Bible Study: September - November 2017.
Topic: The wisdom teaching of Jesus.  Mondays: 10:15am - 12:15pm.
September: 18, 25
October: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
November: 6, 13, 20, 27

Colchester, Church of St Helen and St James the Less, in the Crypt, Priory Street.
Priory Street Bible Study Group: September - November 2017.
Text for study: The Letter to the Hebrews.  Wednesdays: 10:00am - 12:00pm.
September: 20, 27
October: 4, 11, 18, 25
November: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

Greenstead, St John Payne Church Parish Hall, Hawthorn Avenue.
Dates for Bible Study: September - November 2017.
Topic for study: Jesus as Teacher of Wisdom.  Thursdays 10:00am - 12:00pm.
September: 21, 28
October: 12, 19, 26
November: 9, 16, 23, 30

Just bring your Bible and an open mind and heart!

For more information - Responding to the needs of spiritual searching

 

PAST EVENTS


Annual Mass for the Dead at New Hall Chapel and
Dr Hannah Thomas Talk held on the 5th November 2016

We celebrated the Annual Mass for our deceased relatives and friends, in particular those buried in our cemetery at New Hall Chapel on the 5th November 2016 at 2.00pm. 

This year before the Mass, there was an opportunity to hear from our Research Fellow - Dr Hannah Thomas - who shared the fruits of her past year's research, and showed us the uniqueness and national importance of our cemetery.

The details were:

On: Saturday 5th November 2016.

Timing:
2.45pm Hannah's Talk, North Room.
2.00pm Mass for the Dead - celebrant Father Dan Mason.
Followed by visit to the cemetery and tea in the North Room.

Where: New Hall, Boreham, CM3 3HS (note satellite navigation instructions below).  Please be aware that the entrance to New Hall School is found off White Hart Lane.  Older satellite navigation systems may require an alternative postcode of CM1 6GY which will take you a road opposite the entrance for New Hall School.

 

Sister Mary Thérèse RIP
Ann Bamford

The Community are very sad to pass you the news that Sister Mary Thérèse died very suddenly on Saturday 21st November.

We apologise for the formality of this notice but you will appreciate that she had many contacts and friends, and as news travels so quickly these days we felt it important to get the news out as soon as we could.

Please pray for her, for her family and for the Community.

The Requiem Mass was held at 11am on
Tuesday 15th December in 
St James the Less Church Priory Street, Colchester

Prayers, the Eulogy and Service and other snippets are on the Sister Mary Thérèse Bamford RIP page   

  Sister Mary Thérèse

Ann Bamford

Canoness of the Holy Sepulchre

Born 3rd September 1928

Died on 21st November 2015

May she rest in peace

THE LORD IS RISEN, ALLELUIA


 
   

  Coffee and cake go down a treat at
Greenstead zone warden tea party
21st January 2016

Coffee and cake went down a treat at the fifth anniversary of the Greenstead zone warden tea party.

The parties are set up and run by the community zone wardens who work with nuns in the area, the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre.

The self-funded club meets on Thursday mornings at the meeting hall in Forest Road, Colchester.

The party, which was held at the nuns' base in Howe Close, celebrated the group going from strength to strength, growing from around 15 to 30 members.

Zone manager Lee Copping said: "It's a huge celebration.

"It's just great for people who are feeling isolated in the community and they are such a tight-knit group.

"It's a fantastic atmosphere and it's like a little family.  It's a point of contact for them and there is always a familiar face."

The club holds raffles, bingo and other weekly activities and during the spring and summer coach trips are organised.  

These trips also include other older residents on Greenstead living in sheltered housing, funded by money bid for through Colchester Borough Homes' community budget group.

To find out more visit http://www.colchester.gov.uk/Zone6

Colchester Evening Gazette / Posted: January 22nd, 2016
Katherine Palmer, Reporter  

 

    Remember the Summer...

Bradwell 2014 

 

 Women's World Day of Prayer 2013

S. Margaret Mary was the speaker at St Mary's Church, Broomfield, Chelmsford, for Women's World Day of Prayer 2013.  To read the text of the talk, please click on the link below:

S. Margaret Mary wwdp

See our prayer page

 OTHER NEWS 

   Remarkable Rebirth in China

At Christmas we heard the news of the long-awaited birth last summer of a new Augustinian monastery in China, the first and only one to appear there in the past sixty-five years! The foundress Sr Mary Niu had been in England for a few years before to learn about living religious life in community and she had spent some time with us at New Hall, later sending her niece Martha to our school as a student. Sr Mary returned to northeast China in 2008 to start her new life, forming a fledgling contemplative community, currently five, and plans for building a monastery, now officially opened. The full press account of this unique foundation is given on the link below:

Remarkable Rebirth in China