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Cralwey Circle is back at No1

2010-02-03T15:14:00.002Z

With 59 Brothers Crawley Circle is back at Number one but Eastbourne membership is 56 so not far behind.

Web Update

2010-02-03T15:06:00.001Z

Web site updated. An obituary of Bro Maurice Smith DFC and Bar AE RAF (VR) retired has been added. Full update due on the 8th February 2010

EASTBOURNE MEMBERSHIP NOW TOPS 56

2009-06-02T17:15:00.002+01:00

Eastbourne Circle equal with CRAWLEY CIRCLE in Province 18 having 56 Brothers

Back on line

2009-06-02T17:11:00.001+01:00

The web and blog are now fully restored and will be updated in the next few days

New Blog design

2009-03-17T06:24:00.002Z

This blog is being re-designed ready for our Ppresident Elect Kevan Regan year which commences in April. More soon. Pictures from the 600th meeting will be uploaded on Friday 20th March 2009

Lá Fhéile Pádraig

2009-03-17T06:20:00.003Z

Happy St Patrick's Day. The final countdown to our 600th meeting and Golden Jubilee Celebrations has reach the final 2 days. Remember we have mass at Our Lady of Ransom Church at 12 noon on Thursday 19th March. In the evening the 600th meeting in the presence of the Grand President David Taylor will be followed by our Golden Jubilee Banquet.

Happy New Year

2009-01-03T16:25:00.001Z

Happy New Year to all Eastbourne Brothers, their wives and our widows. We hope to see you all in March.

Marcus and Tricia

2004-6 Photographs

2008-09-16T07:14:00.002+01:00

The Eastbourne site is now over 18 gb in size. In order to facilitate easier loading, all photographs taken before 2007 will be removed from the site this week. Many new photographs will be added including the recent Cambridge visit. The photo archives will be kept in storage but will not be available for viewing or downloading on the web.

Desmond Boksan-Cullen
Circle Webmaster

Arundel Banquet 2008

2008-09-15T13:52:00.003+01:00

Eastbourne Circle Brothers and wives lead by President Peter Oakshott turned out in force for the Province 18 organised Catenian Association Arundel Banquet was held in the historic and beautiful Barons Hall on Saturday 13th September, by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk. The Rt Reverend Keiran Conry, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, Rev Canon Tim Madeley, Madeley, Immediate past Grand President Philip Gidman and Mrs Gidman, Past Grand President John Clarke and Mrs Clarke, Director Martin Klust and Miss Zita Macauley joined our own Provincial President Jim Fitzpatrick and Mrs Fitzpatrick on the top table. In total 184 guests and brothers sat down for a very sumptuous meal.

back on line

2008-08-18T16:41:00.004+01:00

The Eastbourne web site is back on line, being updated on a weekly basis. Conference Pictures, Sundial Lunch, the recent International Catenian centenary Croquet Tournament and the Lewes beer festival are all covered with pictures to download. Eastbourne enrolled on new brother this month

back on line

2008-08-18T16:36:00.002+01:00

The major outage on our web sites have finally been resolved. The provincial web site can now be updated on a daily basis.

Last week Grand President David Taylor presented Patrick O Donovan of Seaford and Eastbourne Circles with a 50th anniversary scroll. Last month Chichester enrolled two new brothers and Eastbourne enrolled one last week, with another enrolment due at their September meeting.

More news will be posted soon

Manchester Centenary Conference

2008-05-22T08:22:00.004+01:00

The pictures from the Civic reception will be posted on the website by this weekend. I require pictures from the banquet, Man United Experience and other events, please e-mail to me as jpeg attachments to info@prov18.org.uk

Conference report

2008-05-20T03:46:00.002+01:00

A full report with pictures will be added to the website later this week. Eastbourne President Peter Oakshott, and many brothers from Eastbourne attended the centenary Conference of the Association in Manchester

New Design

2008-05-06T16:44:00.002+01:00

The journal/blog has a new design, which will give a clearer appearance, the web site has also been re-designed.

THURSDAY'S MEETING

2008-05-06T16:42:00.002+01:00

Brothers and Visitors are reminded that the AGM of the Circle will take place at 7pm Sharp! The Circle meeting will follow at 7.30pm.

Ousting Lunch 2008

2008-05-06T16:36:00.001+01:00

Pictures of the recent ousting lunch have been uploaded onto the Circle Web site. Pictures of the provincial AGM can be found on the Provincial Web site here

Provincial Agm

2008-04-23T15:16:00.004+01:00

Many Eastbourne Brothers lead by Brother President Peter Oakshott and provincial Councillor David Hiley, attended the Province 18 AGM and Dinner at the Singing Hills Golf Club. We were privileged to have Grand President Philip Gidman at the meeting and dinner.

Province 18 50th Anniversay Dinner

2008-04-14T15:23:00.003+01:00

Over eighty Brothers and wives attended this event at the White Hart hotel in Lewes on Saturday 12th April. It was a great success and amongst those present were Grand President Philip Gidman, The Rt Rev Bishop Keiran , Director Martin Klust, Provincial President Paul Allen and many past Provincial Presidents. The Eastbourne party were led by the new President of the Circle Peter Oakshott Pictures will be added to both province 18 and Eastbourne Circles web sites later this week

Eastbourne Calendar of Events

2008-04-08T15:22:00.001+01:00

The large calendar of events for Eastbourne Circle has now been published , see the web site for details

Apolgies

2008-04-08T15:19:00.002+01:00

Apologies for not keeping this journal up to date. From Now on, it will be added to each weekend. The next big event is the Province 18 50th Anniversary Dinner at the White Hart lewes, (Black tie and minatures).

Clergy Night 2008

2008-02-08T08:05:00.000Z

Last night Grand President Philip Gidman and his wife Arleen were VIP guests along with the Mayor of Eastbourne Cllr Mary Pooley at the Eastbourne Circle Clergy Night. Many local clergy attended including the Dean of Eastbourne Father Barry Anderson and Canon Seamus Hester. A picture album of 40 photographs has been uploaded onto the Eastbourne Web Site . More pictures will be added soon.

CLERGY NIGHT with Ladies

2008-02-05T17:20:00.000Z

Brothers are reminded that this year's Clergy night has two VIP guests: The Mayor of Eastbourne Her Worship Councillor Mary Pooley and Grand President Phil Gidman. Black Tie with decorations.Time 7.15 for 7.45 at the Langham Hotel Royal parade Eastbourne

HASTING'S CIRCLE 900TH

2008-01-22T11:38:00.000Z

Hastings Circle 900th meeting and Dinner, with Grand President Philip Gidman. The dress code is now LOUNGE SUITS

Happy New year

2008-01-06T08:34:00.000Z

Happy New Year to all surfers from Eastbourne Catenian Circle

Circle Events

2007-12-23T06:08:00.000Z

Brothers are reminded that Sunday's 1030 am mass at Our Lady of Ransom is for the repose of the soul of Brother Bob Clarke, who died earlier this year.

There are no more events for 2007. The next event will be Brother President's visit to Brighton Circle in January. Brothers are reminded that this is a non dining event. On behalf of Brother President, may I wish you all a very happy Christmas.

Christmas Carols at Ratton Drive

2007-12-23T06:03:00.000Z

On Friday 21st December Brother President played host to our annual Christmas Carol Party. It was a very good evening and Debbie Adams at the keyboard helped everyone (well almost everyone) to keep in tune. A picture album of the the evening has been posted on the Circle Web site ( www.eastbournecatenians.org.uk )

Province 18 web-site

2007-12-15T05:42:00.000Z

The Provincial Website has now been uploaded replacing the beta site which has been online for the past 6 weeks. At present it is only 8 pages, however photo albums,Circle meeting details, maps and directions to Circle Venues, and space for each Circle in Province 18 to have their own web page will be added very soon. Keep checking the site, so far there have been 400 unique visits recorded.

Eastbourne Christmas Meeting & Dinner

2007-12-15T05:36:00.001Z

On Thursday 13th December we enrolled two brothers and had a very good Christmas Dinner ,superbly organised by Bro kevan Regan. A full picture album can be found on the Circle Web site.( www.eastbournecatenians.org.uk ). A full report will be posted soon

Eastbourne Meeting 13th December 2007

2007-12-10T10:06:00.000Z

Brothers are reminded that the December meeting on the 13th will commence at 7pm, with registers open at 6.30pm. The annual Christmas Dinner with ladies follows this event. the dinner is a Black Tie occasion.

Mass times: Eastbourne & Hailsham area update

2007-11-28T06:28:00.000Z

Mass times of all weekend masses in the Eastbourne and Hailsham Area have been added this weekend and maps of all the churches will be added over the next week. Many visitors including Catenians, often have out of date information or do not know of the location of the nearest church. These pages will be useful for them. Details of Divine Worship (Orthodox Mass) and benedictine at local RC Churches will be added in due course. You are reminded that Holy Rood is currently closed for buidling work, alternate Saturday mass : 18.00 Christ The King

Comments, contributions

2007-11-28T06:16:00.000Z

Comments, and contributions are always welcome . Any queries to: webmaster@eastbournecatenians.org.uk

Circle Officers 2008-9

2007-11-28T06:05:00.000Z

Congratulations to Kevan Regan who will be our new Vice-President next year. I will be taking over as Press & Publicity Officer for both the Circle and the Province, so send me any articles , photographs or other items of interest. A full list of officers for the coming year will be posted on the Eastbourne Web-site soon.

This journal/blog is now able to show videos in a "you tube" format, and the web-site will be upgraded to video capability in December.

Province 18 web-site

2007-11-28T06:04:00.000Z

The Province web-site is now 8 pages, although it is still under construction. A new Province 18 contact e-mail address has been established. Use this for information, submitting articles and photgraphs. The address is info@prov18.org.uk . The full site should be online before Christmas

Haywards Heath Catenians New Venue

2007-11-12T13:19:00.000Z

Haywards Heath will be meeting at the Mid Sussex Golf Club from December, details on the Eastbourne Website under the Province Tab.

The 3 Circles Meeting

2007-11-12T13:15:00.000Z

On Wednesday 7th November Eastbourne & Seaford Catenian Circles joined Hastings at the Beauport park Hotel for a historic tri-partite meeting. Grand Presdident Philip Gidman was presetn , together with Provinical President Paul Allen, and visitors from throughout Province 18 and the rest of the United Kingdom.

Six Provinces mass for Deceased Brothers

2007-11-04T02:09:00.000Z

Today, Sunday 4th December the Six Provinces mass for Deceased Brothers at Westminster Cathedral will be hosted by Porvince 18. Grand President Philip Gidman and Province 18 Director will do the readings and Provincial President Paul Allen the bidding prayers. Afterwards will be a lunch at the Grosvenor Thistel Hotel, Victoria.

Worthing's 60th Anniversary Dinner

2007-11-02T05:22:00.000Z

On Tuesday 30th October, many brothers from throughout Province 18 including our President Philip Goodman, Tony Hodgson, Neil Stanley and Desmond Boksan-Cullen attended Worthing & Chancterbury's 60th Anniversary Dinner at Worthing Golf Club. The special guest was Bishop Keiran who made a very well received speech. Grand President Philip Gidman, past Grand President Arthur McKivett, and provincial president Paul Allen were also special guests. Pictures show Grand President Philip Gidman making his address & the second photo shows Brother President Phil Goodman and Seaford President Joe Fackler . The evening was a great success and credit must go to all the brothers of Worthing Circle for their hard work which paid great dividends.

Mass times: Eastbourne & Hailsham area

2007-10-28T07:02:00.000Z

Mass times of all weekend masses in the Eastbourne and Hailsham Area have been added this weekend. maps of all the churches will be added over the next week. Many visitors including Catenians, often have out of date information or do not know of the location of the nearest church. These pages will be useful for them. Details of Divine Worship (Orthodox Mass) and benedictine at local RC Churches will be added in due course.

On Tuesday several brothers will accompany Brother President Phil Goodman to Worthing's 60th anniversary meeting and dinner (black tie). On Friday is the new members information social evening in Lewes. Sunday is the Six Provinces mass at Westminster Cathedral, I will post a report of this next week.

New members in Province 18

2007-10-26T03:41:00.000+01:00

Crawley Circle enrolled two new brothers last night at the Goffs Park Hotel. Arundel Circle also enrolled two new brothers at their meeting on the 24th October.

Videos added

2007-10-25T14:37:00.000+01:00

The first Video features Cardinal Cormac and Archbishop Williams. More video will be added in the coming months. I also hope to add a welcome video from Eastbourne Circle early in the New year.

Web site news

2007-10-23T06:06:00.001+01:00

The website continues to evolve and expand, in response to comments sent to the webmaster the games page has been removed and replaced with an additional City page with the latest financial, economic and business news together with eh FTSE 100 highest and lowest. At the weekend I attedned both masses on Sunday in Lewes to gather support for a new Lewes Catenian Group. A few other Catenians were there and heard an excellent pulpit presentation by Joe Fackler of Seaford Circle. Amgst the other brothers were Patrick O'Donovan, Provinical President Paul Allen, Director Martin Klust and David Tilson of Brighton Circle. A social evening is planned for the 2nd November in Lewes.

The Pope in Naples

2007-10-23T06:03:00.000+01:00

-- Under grey skies and a cold rain, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged people to stand firm in their hope that God will hear their prayers for justice and peace. Arriving to celebrate Mass Oct. 21 in Naples' historic Piazza del Plebiscito, Pope Benedict stopped to embrace Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury and other leaders of Christian churches.The religious leaders were in Naples for an Oct. 21-23 interreligious meeting sponsored by the Rome-based Sant'Egidio Community. After the Mass, they were joined by representatives of the Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu and other religions for a meeting and lunch with the pope.Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Williams and Ezzedine Ibrahim, a Muslim scholar from the United Arab Emirates, were among the nine guests at the pope's table. Ibrahim was one of 138 Muslim leaders and scholars who signed an Oct. 11 letter to the pope and other Christian leaders proposing a dialogue based on the shared beliefs that there is only one God, that God loves the people he created and that he calls believers to love others. Catholic News Service

Bob Clarke Obituary added

2007-10-19T14:00:00.000+01:00

Today I have added Kevan Regan's excellent obituary on Brother Bob Clarke. I have also updated the links and adding the web links for Polegate and Hailsham Parish. Since the relaunch of the main site, there have been over 800 visits! Many thanks to all those supporting the site, lets hop we will top 1,000 by Christmas. We had our first web visitors from South America (Brazil) and two from New Zealand this week. more pictures will be added over the weekend. I will be at the masses on Sunday in Lewes in order to encourage a Catenian Group to be formed there.

Download your favourite photos

2007-10-16T17:15:00.000+01:00

The website galleries and photo albums have been upgraded to allow the surfer to download their favourite photographs as jpegs, rather than having to request copies from the webmaster. This facility is available for the following sets of photographs: Eastbourne Beer Festival 2007, Circle ladies Night Oct 2007, Ten Pin Bowling Sept 2007, Tea party at David Hiley's house. More will be added soon.

A new page giving information on the President's Charity (SVP) has been added with local content being added later in the week.

EASTBOURNE BEER FESTIVAL

2007-10-13T11:19:00.001+01:00

Our annual pilgrimage to the Winters Gardens for the beer festival was a great sucess. The many different beers were tried with scientific diligence and the curry was also great. As always the entertainment/music was far too loud. A set of pictures are being added to the web-site this morning.

Two New Brothers enrolled

2007-10-12T06:05:00.000+01:00

From Left to right: Director Martin Klust; Don Withey; Membership Officer Laurence Rigamonte; Circle President Phil Goodman; Provincial President Paul Allen; Jerry Palmer

At last night's Circle meeting two new brothers were enrolled, they were Don Withey and Jerry Palmer. The meeting was conducted in record time with the right level of decorum. We also had three visitors from other circles, they were Peter Fackler, Director Martin Klust and Provincial President Paul Allen. After the meting we had an excellent dinner with ladies. Provincial President Paul Allen also made a presentation to brother David Hiley for his contributions to the sucess of the two annual Catenianian Conferences held in Eastbourne in recent years. The Picture above shows the new brothers. The Circle website has many more pictures.

Head ofice new website

2007-10-11T09:05:00.000+01:00

Anyone know how this site is accessed? To log in you need a user name and password. How do members get one? Only contact details are for non-members, members are re-directed to a log-in.......er..

M & T

Jersey week-end

2007-10-11T08:58:00.000+01:00

We had a great time in Jersey last week-end. Everyone very friendly and the weather was splendid, as was the food!
At dinner Brother Grand President gave a harrowing account of life in Zimbabwe - he was just back from a visit to the African Circles. He especially asked for everyone to pray for Zimbabwe.

Marcus & Tricia

Lewes Catenians?

2007-10-10T15:25:00.000+01:00

The new parish priest of Lewes is keen that a Catenian presence in the parish should become a reality. Seaford Circle together with assistance from the neighbouring Circles of Brighton, Brighton Regency and Haywards Heath will make pulpit presentations at the 6pm Mass on the 20th and at both Sunday masses. There will be brothers on hand at all masses to talk informally to interested gentlemen. If you would like to help contact Joe Fackler of Seaford Circle (I will not publish his contact details here as he will become a victim of sales calling!) His details are in the directory. If it is not possible to form a group then perhaps the result will be more enrolments in the neighbouring Circles.

Circle News

2007-10-10T15:22:00.000+01:00

This Thursday's Circle meeting is followed by dinner with Ladies. A reminder that the November meeting of the Circle will be at the Beauport Park Hotel and will be a joint meeting with Seaford and Hastings Circles, followed by dinner- lounge suits.

Foot & Mouth Restrictions lifted in Heathfield

2007-10-03T17:46:00.000+01:00

A temporary foot-and-mouth control zone near Haywards Heath, Sussex, has been lifted after laboratory results showed the disease was not present.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the restrictions were lifted on Wednesday morning, having been in place since Monday.

There have been eight foot-and-mouth cases confirmed in Surrey since August.

The European Commission says it plans to ease restrictions on British exports of beef and sheep meat from 12 October.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch and Holy Father to meet

2007-10-03T17:06:00.000+01:00

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia has said a long-discussed meeting with Pope Benedict XVI may be able to take place in the near future.

“Concerning the possibility of meeting Benedict, I don't exclude anything. Maybe not in a month, but in a year or two,” Patriarch Alexy II said,

“But we must prepare carefully and resolve all difficulties.”

However, in an interview with French periodical, La Vie magazine, the primate of the Russian church stated that “a visit by the pope is not being considered,” adding that the Orthodox church “have never rejected the possibility of personal talks with the pope, even in the most dramatic periods in our relations.”

The Russian Orthodox Church has viewed a possible meeting between “the leaders of the two largest Christian churches as real improvement in Orthodox-Catholic relations, not as a formal event to be covered by the world media.

The patriarch said that the priority for the two churches today was to assert the evangelical values and the Christian way of life.

“It is obvious that such tendencies as aggressive secularism, religious relativism, the confining of religion to the sidelines of public life, the propaganda of consumerism and the revision of ethical norms require a joint Christian response, which the Orthodox and Catholic churches must provide."
CathNews Agency, Sydney

Web site Statistics

2007-10-03T16:55:00.000+01:00

As of this afternoon, there had been 584 unique hits (The counter does not record surfers simply refreshing their page after the initial visit). This means that in the past 7 days there have been over 270 surfers visiting the revamped and greatly extended site. Including sub pages it now has 45 active page content. I have been publicizing the site around province for the past 6 weeks and apart from Worthing I have been to every Circle. For the first 3 months (April, May, June) There has only been 89 hits, so this is a great improvement. Of the 270 hits this past week, 108 have visited the City News and FTSE 100 pages during their viewing of the site. This is proving to be the most popular page other than the normal Home and Events pages.

Add your comments

2007-10-03T16:51:00.000+01:00

The journal is up and running and we welcome your views and ideas, please add comments and they will be posted on to the journal within days.

TEN PIN BOWLING TOURNAMENT

2007-10-03T16:41:00.000+01:00

The Circle took over 3 bowling lanes at the Lloyd's Lanes Club last week for the annual Ten Pin Bowling Tournament, organised by Bro Brian Winter. Afterwards a number of us had an excellent dinner at the nearby Toby Carvery. A full photo album of the event has been posted to the website.

For those brothers who have thought of visiting other Circles. maps, driving directions and meeting details of all circles in our province have been added to the Province 18 section . Details of the Bursary Fund and a games page has also been added. Details on the Catenian Vocation Initiative will be posted soon.

On the subject of web sites the all new Catenian Association Web site is now on line at the new address: http://www.thecatenians.com . It has very small print and doesn't work in all browsers such as Opera. There are no links to any Circle web-site, and navigation is very confusing. Still have a look and make up your own mind.

E-mail alerts

2007-09-29T17:44:00.000+01:00

E-mail alerts will resume on the 4th October similar to the Feedbitz which Tony Crooks organised. The journal will be embedded in the website from the 3rd October.
Des

Website News

2007-09-29T17:14:00.000+01:00

The main web site is now over 40 pages and includes news, sport, city news , the complete FTSE 100 index in addition to everything about the Catenian Association and Eastbourne Circle. Maps have been added enabling easier visiting to other Circles in Province 18, so there is no excuse to making that promised visit. The new Association's web site is now on line at http://www.catenians.com and it would win second prize for design in a primary school competition, have a look for yourself.

I will be adding comment over the next few days.

Burma, please remember all the Christians in Burma who are also suffering under this cruel dictatorship. As ever also include in your prayers our Brothers in Zimbabwe

2007-09-17T17:44:00.001+01:00

Beta Post

2007-09-17T16:41:00.000+01:00

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Welcome

2007-09-17T16:22:00.000+01:00

This is the new blog of Eastbourne Catenians Online. it is running in beta format until its official launch on the 27th September. The main web site of the Eastbourne Catenian Association can be found at www.eastbournecatenians.org.uk