The captions and images shown below give an idea of activities and special events held at our SDC centre in London. Our main contribution in parishes mainly involves running catechism groups but other activities are held throughout the year for other groups for young people and adults.

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Carol Singing

Our latest addition to the annual carol singing service in Brixton, London, was a group of children dressed as Nativity story characters. These included Mary and Joseph as well as shepherds. Children enjoyed playing their different parts as well as singing. Parents, shoppers at Brixton centre and passers by stopped to have a look and listen to our carols. The carol singing service is our way of celebrating the Christmas ‘demonstration’ with Baby Jesus started in Malta by St George Preca.

Catechism Group Programmes 2017-2018

At the beginning of the new Catechetical year we have again started our groups in different parishes. This included Confirmation and First Communion catechism groups at the Rosary Parish, Brixton, St Andrew’s Parish in Thornton Heath, Our Lady’s in Addiscombe and our local parish Virgo Fidelis, Upper Norwood.

Website Resources

Our SDC website www.sdc.me.uk continued to provide new resources for catechists and RE teachers in English. Apart from the well established programmes for First Communion, Confirmation and Sunday Liturgy, recent resources included a new set of resources for the RCIC programme, a series of photo galleries on Religious objects and places used in liturgy and worship, as well as new powerpoint presentations and some new biographies of saints.

Confirmations

Sunday 25th June 2017 was a special day as we had the Celebration of Confirmation in two different parishes where we run this programme. 38 young people were confirmed by Archbishop Peter Smith in the morning at the Holy Rosary Parish in Brixton while another group of 15 candidates received the same sacrament in the evening at Virgo Fidelis Parish, Upper Norwood.

Feast of St George Preca 2017

The feast of the Founder was celebrated this year on Sunday 12th May 2017. A mass was organized for friends, parents and other parishioners at the Holy Rosary Parish. It was led by Fr Victor Camilleri assisted by two other priests. It was encouraging to see a good number of parents as well as children from various catechism programs attending the mass which was followed by a reception in the parish hall.

Reflection day

The group that attended the Reflection Day

A retreat day was held on Sunday 7th May 2017 for members of the SDC Friends Group. The reflection day was held in a Dominican Convent in Hook, Hampshire. The day consisted of Bible Study and reflection session, prayer sessions including the Rosary prayer as well as the celebration of the Holy Mass. The theme chosen for this reflection day was ‘The Virtues’ with special reference to the six virtues in our SDC daily resolution prayer. The SDC Friends group is a group of adults who meet regularly every month for bible reflection sessions at the SDC House in Upper Norwood.

St Vincent Ferrer

SDC Friends meetings

During this year in which SDC is reflecting on the set of six virtues we resolve to practise every day, we are having our SDC Friends meetings to reflect on these virtues inspired by St Vincent Ferrer and adopted by our Founder. We use Scripture readings and reflections on these virtues in order that more people will have the opportunity to share in our SDC spirituality and try to practice the virtues of poverty, simplicity, meekness, humility, love being despised and loving others with great charity.