In common with Christians across the world, The Society is delighted to be marking in 2025 the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, that highly important moment in the process of the Church setting out what it believes through it creeds, and repeated Sunday-by-Sunday in our churches in the form of the Nicene Creed. The Society is offering:

(i) An introductory note accompanied by a general video, including some filming from the most recent Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage. They are available here and here.

(ii) An Advent course raising general themes of faith, the creeds, and liturgy. The course is not particular to Advent, and can be used at other times of the year too. The materials - a short video accompanied by a study note compiled by Society priests - will be available week-by-week over Advent 2024.

(iii) A Lent 2025 course, to be released early next calendar year, will look in detail at the content of the Nicene Creed.

Introductory Note

Session One: The Nature of Faith

Study Note

For more details about this exciting free initiative, email Clare Williams who will send you more details, including the Zoom link for the meeting.

Over the last three days, 33 Society deacons and priests, many of whom are assistant curates, have gathered at the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham to support one another and to participate in the annual Initial Ministerial Education phase two (IME 2) conference, led by the Bishop of Oswestry on behalf of The Society. The delegates expressed their deep gratitude to the Cleaver Fund, which so generously met the costs of the conference.

The Right Reverend Paul Thomas, the Bishop of Oswestry, commented: "I am overjoyed that such a good number of deacons and priests have participated so enthusiastically in our IME 2 conference. Such is the success of the conference that next year we shall be adding a first incumbents' course for Society parish priests new to that role."

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