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We are excited to start the autumn season at St Katharine Cree with a packed programme of exciting and interesting events - starting with the Lion Sermon on 10th October!


You can download the autumn programme (PDF) or check out our 'What's On' page with details of one off events and our regular pattern of prayer and worship.


Come and join in!


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Here are some of our Featured Events this autumn:




In her new book, Fully Alive:Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, Elizabeth Oldfield draws on ancient wisdom and often searingly honest stories about her life to gently suggest some habits and practices which can nudge us into building what she helpfully calls our 'spiritual core strength'. This is not about esoteric spiritual practices or religious rituals - what a friend of mine calls 'woo-woo religion' - but very ordinary, yet hard to actually do, habits which cultivate honesty, openness to people who are not like me, and a curiosity about the world.


Curiosity is clearly a value which Oldfield holds dear. It is also one which modern life paradoxically suffocates. The ease of finding information out, of a quick google search on a phone or asking Alexa for an answer, tends in many of us to short-circuit the giving of sustained attention which true curiosity requires. Yet if we are to find a way through to the deeper relationships, with each other and perhaps ourselves, which thriving through turbulent times requires, it is sustained attention which is so desperately needed. This is going to take some practice. I am glad Oldfield is here to gently help us find a path.


Elizabeth Oldfield's book is one to pick up and ponder, then perhaps set aside while a chapter percolates, before trying to read any more. Reading it is like sitting down with her for a coffee and chat, her legendary kindness and humour and humanity somehow jostling and ushering us far along a journey to reflecting on how we've become the people we are, and what we might do to become the people we would like to be.


You can come and hear Elizabeth speak as our 375th Lion Sermon preacher in October this year. It is free to come but you need to register to secure a place at this very special Choral Evensong: https://skc.churchsuite.com/events/u03zer4g

This week is volunteering week and we were delighted to host a celebration of volunteers and leaders by the Shpresa Programme. This is a charity that promotes the participation and contribution of Albanian-speaking refugees and migrants in the UK. Through their services and projects, they encourage and support individuals and families to play a positive and active role in British society.



Shpresa was founded by Luljeta Nuzi, who preached our 2023 Lion Sermon and told her story of starting Shpresa as a new migrant from Albania twenty years ago - and the importance of faith in finding the strength to do so, and to continue today against the challenges of her own journey with cancer. You can read her sermon on our website: https://www.stkatharinecree.org/lion-sermon


We are delighted to be supporting Shpresa by hosting events here in the City - and we are looking forward to co-hosting a celebration for Mother Theresa Day in September.

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