Jesuit Young Adult Ministries offers young people (18 - 35) opportunities and pathways to develop their faith. Masses, social events, retreats, talks, pilgrimages, volunteering, or faith formation programmes - we have a lot to offer!
On the first Saturday of each month in the Jesuit Community house on Clapham Common (or online), we explore issues of faith, social justice, integral ecology, synodality, and much more. If you would like to come along, please drop us an email: yam@jesuit.org.uk
You can also find us on social media - Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
About the speaker
Colette Joyce has dedicated her life to working within the structures of the Catholic Church, both in parish ministry, in the areas of catechesis and faith development, and in advocacy for the role of women in the Church. She is passionate about social justice and has a special regard for Care for Creation and racial justice.
Colette has acted as an accredited representative for the Faith Workers Branch of the trade union, Unite, since 2010, and in 2018 was elected as the Equalities Officer for the National Executive of the Branch.
In 2020, she was appointed Justice and Peace Co-ordinator at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster.
"The question of why Catholic men are priests, yet Catholic women are not, struck me at an impressionable age. I was sixteen when a non-Christian friend of the family asked me if I thought women should be priests. My answer was a very shocked, ‘No!’ However, both the question and my reaction nagged at me, and I began to give it more serious consideration."
You can follow Colette on Twitter here.
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