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We are delighted to point you to the Marriage Week message by Bishop Bosco of Clifton Diocese. He is the lead bishop for Marriage and Family Life. He says: "For Christians, marriage isn’t just a legal agreement, it’s a special promise between husband and wife,...

Dear Friends in teams, Below you will find a link to the Virtual Teams meeting - this Friday 20th December at 8pm. (though you can join from 7:45pm). As we approach the end of the year, we will concentrate this month on looking back at the year and...

One of the wonderful reflections we heard while on our Equipes Notre-Dame (Teams) international gathering in July in Turin featured 'carbon'. Atomically carbon is in the world in many forms; commonly as coal; rarely as diamond – they’re both the same atom but configured differently, presented...

The international study topic for 2024 – 2025 is published.  It is called “On the Road to Emmaus”.  It includes reflections from the International Gathering in Turin in July 2024.  There are eight chapters, each with reflection, thoughts from Fr Caffarel, testimony, prayer and questions...

This is the monthly podcast of the Bishops Conference of England and Wales. www.cbcew.org.uk/podcast/prayer-fasting-almsgiving-episode-20 it is a 40 minute audio magazine.  February's looks at Lent, prayer- fasting - almsgiving, and also other items.  Cardinal Nichols speaks about the need for peace in Gaza with Israel. There's news...

Dear Friends, Please find the updated Agenda and Zoom Link below. As you will see, the meeting will get started at 11.15am. For any of you who are able to join us via Zoom, we will open the ‘Virtual Room’ at 11am in time for our start...

Change of Date - Northern Regional Gathering If you are hoping to attend, please note that the date has changed to the 21st October 2023. Radio Maria update Paul and Janet DeBoo visited Radio Maria England on Thursday 10th August and thoroughly enjoyed presenting about Teams of Our...

Our Teams GB gathering at Swanwick was so successful, that it has set the ball rolling for our Regional Gatherings. Northern Region members were delighted to receive a message from our soon-to-be Regional Couple, David and Joanne who are wasting no time in announcing plans for...

Dear Teams Members Due to a technical problem with the website, many of you have not been receiving our posts. Hopefully this has been resolved and you should be receiving emails from us now on. If anyone has failed to receive a post, and has subscribed to...

Couples at our Teams Re-Gathering reflected on their relationship with their spouse.  The great majority said that they would like to improve it.  Couples then explored this further in a presentation given by Annette and Paul O'Beirne.      ...

Our Last Day It hardly seems that we have been here for any time at all, and this was our last day together.  Bishop Patrick McKinney, 10th Bishop of Nottingham spoke to us his own Episcopal Motto - a challenge he set himself as a priest -...

Our Second Day After yesterday's introduction to our weekend, we were all treated to a beautiful opening liturgy, which covered the Wedding at Cana, and introduced the theme of "Serving in imitation of Mary". Sadly Father Eamonn Mulcahy, CSSp was unwell and could not join us.  This...

Welcome to everyone Today was a great experience for all of us who came to attend our National Gathering at the Hayes Centre, in Swanwick. Our greeters went above and beyond in making everyone feel at home and made sure that their needs were met....

The Programme The dedication of the team setting up the events over the next few days is awe-inspiring. Considering these are voluntary roles, there has been a great deal of thought, prayer and vision acted out to make sure attendees are able to enjoy a full...

Looking forward to Swanwick It is always wonderful to be looking forward to gathering together with our fellow Teams members at the Swanwick National Gathering. This marks a fresh beginning of our face to face encounters with each other. Something that we haven't managed to do...

We are delighted that plans for our Re-Gathering of members from Teams of Our Lady in The Hayes Centre are in full swing. The event will take place from the evening of Friday, 21 April 2023 to the Afternoon of Sunday, 23 April 2023. Annette and Paul...

A new way of sharing our highlights, or our learning experiences with our brothers and sisters in Teams is to use the "Posts" on the website. Sharing our news is a really important part of relationship and community; it's the first part of our Team meeting and...

It seemed such a long time since we as a Team were able to share in person, a retreat.  We have become so used to using Zoom, or MS Teams, or WhatsApp to get together with our friends and families that it seemed a bit...

        World Meeting of Families 2022 We invite you to get a flavour of the recent World Meeting of Families in June. Many couples and families gave moving witness to their lives as families and the difficulties they have experienced as well as the joys they have shared....