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1apr - 20mayAll DayEastertide - 50 days of Easter
The celebration of the Easter Vigil is the beginning of the season of Easter. The Vigil is the Christian feast par excellence, the feast of new birth, new beginnings, salvation renewed,
The celebration of the Easter Vigil is the beginning of the season of Easter. The Vigil is the Christian feast par excellence, the feast of new birth, new beginnings, salvation renewed, and humanity restored to the Lord. While the Vigil marks the end of the paschal fast, the end of the celebration of Holy Week, and the end of repentance and conversion for which Lent prepared the community, it is much more a beginning. It is the beginning of a new season of grace and a time of joy and thanksgiving, for Easter is not one day or one solemnity—it is a fifty day celebration, and the fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday together comprise what the General Instruction terms “the great Sunday”.
Read more at: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1233
April 1 (Sunday) - May 20 (Sunday)
30apr6:30 pmNewman Lecture 2018
This year’s Newman Lectures at the University of East Anglia open with a lecture by leading Catholic academic Professor Stephen Bullivant. A former atheist, Professor Bullivant studied philosophy and theology at Oxford
This year’s Newman Lectures at the University of East Anglia open with a lecture by leading Catholic academic Professor Stephen Bullivant.
A former atheist, Professor Bullivant studied philosophy and theology at Oxford University, and converted to Catholicism whilst completing a doctorate studying Vatican II.
He is an award-winning scholar who has written widely on atheism and secularism as well as on the Trinity and on Fatima. Professor Bullivant is also a regular columnist for the Catholic Herald, and in addition speaks on BBC radio and on EWTN.
The theme of the 2018 Newman Lectures is Holiness and, by co-incidence, Pope Francis is about to issue an Apostolic Exhortation on the same topic.
Professor Bullivant will be speaking particularly about holiness and secularism, and has described the invitation to give a Newman Lecture as ‘a great honour’.
The Newman Lectures begin at UEA on April 16 at 6.30pm, in the Julian Study Centre and are free to attend.
They continue with former Archbishop Rowan Williams (April 23); and Sr Ann Swailes of Cambridge University (April 30).
For more information contact andrew.eburne@uea.ac.uk
(Monday) 6:30 pm
