Community of Aidan & Hilda - East Anglia Group Diary

Community of Aidan & Hilda
For the healing of the land through children, women and men who draw inspiration from the Celtic Saints
EAST ANGLIA GROUP DIARY

The East Anglia Group as such no longer exists. It has been replaced by the Norwich Group which meets at Nogg's Barn, to the west of Norwich. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the months March, April, May, June, July, September, October and November between 4 and 7pm.
The Group's aim is to post news of their meetings on the Network Norwich website.
For further details contact the Regional Co-ordinator Betty Taylor by email.

Within the Region there is also an Essex Group whose meetings and events are open to all.
The Group is led by the Revd Canon Carol Smith from Chelmsford. Meetings are held at various locations around the area.
For further details contact the Regional Co-ordinator Penny James by email, or tel: 01371 851520.

Details of Meetings and related events
in the Anglia Region

2013AD

LAMMAS
The Season of Harvests

Saturday 5th October The Fursey Pilgrims invite you to join them for:
'A pilgrimage in honour of St. Fursey'.
Commencing with a Service starting at 2.30pm in Burgh Castle Parish Church.
Guest Preacher this year will be the Revd Jack Burton, a Methodist minister who has had a tremendous ministry as a worker-priest in the Methodist tradition.
After the Service there will be a short walk for prayers at the traditional site of Fursey's Monastery followed by light refreshments in the Village Hall. For further details and to advise numbers attending, tel: 01493 781747, or email
For further information about the Fursey Pilgrims visit our website at http://www.furseypilgrims.co.uk
See also the footnotes to the item on St. Fursey and Burgh Castle on the
Anglia Region Page.

Thursday 24th October Quiet Day at the Chapel of St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex.
'The Music of Silence', a day of space and prayer to tune in to God's music.
From 10am till 4pm.
Lunch at the Othona Community.
Concluding with a Communion Service to celebrate St. Cedd.
Cost Ł15
For further information and to book, please contact the Chaplain to St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, the Revd Brigid Main by email at stpeterschapel@outlook.com or tel: 01621 776438.

Saturday 26th October THE FEAST OF ST. CEDD
Cedd was one of four brothers adopted by Aidan into the monastery at Lindisfarne He sailed from there in 653AD at the request of Sigbert, King of the East Saxons, who wanted his people to become Christians. Cedd landed on the Essex coast at the remains of the Roman fort of Othona near to what is now Bradwell-on-Sea. The following year and re-using material from the ruins he built the chapel of
St. Peter's-on-the-Wall that we see there today. He died in 664AD and was buried at the monastery of Lastingham which he had founded in 658AD.

Wednesday 30th October THE FEAST OF ST. FOILLAN
A brother of Fursey, Foillan took over the care of the monastery at
Burgh Castle after Fursey had gone to France. On Fursey's death in 650,
Foillan and another of his brothers, Uttan, were invited to go to the Continent
and establish a monastery at Fosses near Nivelles, Belgium, for the benefit
of Irish immigrants.

SAMHAIN
The Year's Beginning
The Coming of the Dark

2014AD

Saturday 18th January The Feast of St. Fursey
The Fursey Pilgrims 2014 celebration of the Feast of Fursey at St Matthew's Church, Telegraph Lane West, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich NR1 4JL.

2.45 pm: Arrival & registration. Cost for the afternoon Ł10.
3.00 pm: Celtic Service, followed by light refreshments and time to meet each other.
c.4.15 pm: The Fursey Lecture by Dr Nicola Gordon Brown, titled
'Beyond human knowledge: visualizing individual spiritual endeavour and experience in the art of the early 20th century Celtic Revival'
Dr Nicola is from the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and has written and lectured widely on late 19th & early 20th century art and design, the revival of stained glass as an art form, vernacularism and national romanticism and contemporary craft expression. After the lecture there will be the opportunity for questions.

The afternoon will end at 6.00pm.

For further details of the celebration click here, email, or tel: 01603 402797.
For further information about the Fursey Pilgrims visit our website at http://www.furseypilgrims.co.uk
See also the footnotes to the item on St. Fursey and Burgh Castle on the
Anglia Region Page.

Information on the Feast Days is taken mostly from
Shirley Toulson's 'The Celtic Year', published by Element Books.
In most cases the the saint's festivals are celebrated on the
days of their deaths; but in a few cases the saint's day
will fall on the day that the relics were enshrined.

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Saturday 5th October	The Fursey Pilgrims invite you to join them for: 'A pilgrimage in honour of St. Fursey'. Commencing with a Service starting at 2.30pm in Burgh Castle Parish Church. Guest Preacher this year will be the Revd Jack Burton, a Methodist minister who has had a tremendous ministry as a worker-priest in the Methodist tradition. After the Service there will be a short walk for prayers at the traditional site of Fursey's Monastery followed by light refreshments in the Village Hall. For further details and to advise numbers attending, tel: 01493 781747, or email For further information about the Fursey Pilgrims visit our website at http://www.furseypilgrims.co.uk See also the footnotes to the item on St. Fursey and Burgh Castle on the Anglia Region Page.
Thursday 24th October	Quiet Day at the Chapel of St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. 'The Music of Silence', a day of space and prayer to tune in to God's music. From 10am till 4pm. Lunch at the Othona Community. Concluding with a Communion Service to celebrate St. Cedd. Cost Ł15 For further information and to book, please contact the Chaplain to St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, the Revd Brigid Main by email at stpeterschapel@outlook.com or tel: 01621 776438.
Saturday 26th October	THE FEAST OF ST. CEDD Cedd was one of four brothers adopted by Aidan into the monastery at Lindisfarne He sailed from there in 653AD at the request of Sigbert, King of the East Saxons, who wanted his people to become Christians. Cedd landed on the Essex coast at the remains of the Roman fort of Othona near to what is now Bradwell-on-Sea. The following year and re-using material from the ruins he built the chapel of St. Peter's-on-the-Wall that we see there today. He died in 664AD and was buried at the monastery of Lastingham which he had founded in 658AD.
Wednesday 30th October	THE FEAST OF ST. FOILLAN A brother of Fursey, Foillan took over the care of the monastery at Burgh Castle after Fursey had gone to France. On Fursey's death in 650, Foillan and another of his brothers, Uttan, were invited to go to the Continent and establish a monastery at Fosses near Nivelles, Belgium, for the benefit of Irish immigrants.