A Day of Celebration and Prayer
On 14th July 1833 John Keble,
scholar, priest and hymn writer, preached a sermon which was to
start the
Oxford Movement in the Church of England. It was to have an effect
beyond his imagining. John Newman, Richard Hurrell Froude, and William
Palmer, joined with Keble to publish a series of
Tracts for the Times and were later joined by Edward Pusey.
On Monday 14th July 2008 you are warmly
invited to join in an hour of silent prayer which is being held to mark
the 175th anniversary of the Oxford Movement and of the Catholic Revival
in the Church of England.
As we pray to God on 14th July, it is our aim not merely
to commemorate the events of the past, but also to listen to God and to
pray for His help to discern and carry out His will in our own
generation.
We hope a nationwide hour of prayer might remind our
congregations of things they already know but have pushed to the back of
their minds, and perhaps introduce others to the insights and riches of
the Catholic Revival.
The hour of silent prayer is sponsored by the principal
Catholic societies and organisations of the Church of England (see
below), but we warmly invite all men and women of good will to join in.
As we give thanks for the Oxford Movement and the many
blessings it brought to the Church of England, we seek above all to
glorify our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our past, present and future, and
to lift up our whole lives to him in love and faith.
An initiative of the Church of England's
Catholic societies.
The hour
of silent prayer is supported by The Additional Curates Society, The
Anglo-Catholic History Society, The Anglo-Catholic Ordination Candidates
Fund, The Anniversary Trust, The Catholic League, The Church Union, The
Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, The Federation of Catholic
Priests, Forward in Faith, The Guild of All Souls, The Guild of Servants
of the Sanctuary, Pusey House, The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, The
Society of Mary, The Society of the Holy Cross, The Society for the
Maintenance of the Faith.
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