Testimonials

Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Brisbane, Australia

BELONG & BELIEVE: We completed this course last Tuesday. It was very user friendly to show. The results were very positive, we recommend it. Nearly everyone wants to come back for more CaFE courses later in the year and we are also planning a monthly community Working From Home Lunch.

Nicola, CaFE leader from Corpus Christi, Wokingham

CaFE Courses: Thank you for the resources, we are very pleased with them as a good follow up to Alpha or Sycamore. With your permission, we have added Dutch subtitles to a number of your courses and the Let It Be course is now running in Amsterdam with 50 people attending. Please hold them in your prayers.

Helen Opstal, Katholiek Alpha Centrum, The Netherlands

I have found this Big Picture course invaluable in so many different ways. Interestingly each time I follow the course I receive fresh insights into what Scripture is saying to me

Participant

BELONG & BELIEVE: is amazing. We had fifty people on our course across four parishes and such good feedback. More importantly, we are hopeful of the fruit from the experience.

Geoff and Gina Poulter, Basingstoke

BELONG & BELIEVE: At Divine Renovation we often talk about how people need to belong to a community before they are invited to believe through a living personal faith. CaFE invites us to explore how this model applied in the communities of our ancient Christian roots. This is a fascinating resource which will be a help to parishes as they work to become communities where people can belong first, and then believe.

Hannah Vaughan-Spruce, Executive Director - UK, Divine Renovation

Since the beginning of lockdown we have been running very successful CaFE@HOME sessions and will probably continue after lockdown is ended even though none of us are particularly computer literate. We catch up on Zoom for 20mins, break off to watch the DVDs, Zoom straight afterwards to discuss for 25mins and then end with intercessory prayer.

Claire, CaFE@HOME Group in Bournemouth.

CaFE have helped our parishes for years and are proving ideal for these testing times.

Natalie Orefice, Administrator for Parish Evangelisation, Archdiocese of Birmingham

The CaFE courses have alleviated the feeling of isolation. Hosting the course on Zoom has not lost anything of the Spirit of the course, in fact, it has enabled many more course participants than using the hall.

Theresa, Portsmouth Diocese

CaFE have very kindly provided our Home Groups with a number of filmed courses via Zoom which have helped them enormously during this time. Deacon Gygory and I would like to thank CaFE for all the help that was freely given.

Fr Peter Burke, St Alban's, Macclesfield

The new Baptism: course is concise and very easy to use... Some of our parents for whom English is not their first language commented, ‘Easy to understand and very nice’, ‘friendly families on film just like us’. It is ideal for new Baptism catechists as well as those who are more experienced.

Jane Foskett, Catechetical Coordinator, Yeading

The Big Picture helped piece together a lot of things that I sort of knew. I found it quite profound and deeply rewarding. It gave me a deeper understanding of The Word of God.

Brendan, St Albans

Baptism: I have just used this course with a family new to our Church. The thing I like about this new baptism film over the old one is that there are more ordinary people talking. The quality of the work is brilliant, so professional that it really helps promote the Church.

Fr. Simon, Parish Priest

Baptism: Such an energising and inspiring way for our children and parents to learn about Baptism.

Nichola Potts, Headteacher, Manchester

Beloved Disciples: The best Lent course we have ever done. If ever we were encouraged in our faith that was it. We all felt we had been given a new lease of life, loved and appreciated. So encouraged that the Church of the future is ours too! We are looking forward to our next course, The Joy of Hope.

Jean Washington, Course Leader from Fleckney

Deanery Visits: I very much appreciated you taking the time to come and speak to the Deanery. It was especially helpful to see and hear about the resources that CaFE is creating, developing and updating and the ways in which CaFE can provide some excellent tools to help us effectively communicate the Good News both in our parishes and beyond!. Best wishes

Fr Shaun, a DR parish in the Watford Deanery

CaFE courses are an excellent resource for parishes looking to lead newly evangelized adults into maturity of faith.

Fr James Mallon, Divine Renovation Ministry UK

Let It Be: I’m so impressed with the course - the professionalism, the tone, the content, the interviewees themselves, the music, the pace. It is such a rich presentation, and so well produced; it is about Jesus as much as it is about Mary. I am encouraging people to get it as an introduction to the Christian faith.

Fr Stephen Wang, Catholic Chaplaincy, London

Let It Be: It is my privilege to recommend this much-needed inspirational resource on Mary, the Mother of God. Our Lady leads us towards her Son, Jesus. As we reflect on the teaching in this DVD, we can be led ever more deeply into their love for each other and for each of us. CaFE continues to provide extremely helpful teaching in an accessible way for parishes and individuals, and I encourage you to allow the Holy Spirit to draw you into the love of God as you watch this series.

Fr Simon Penhalagan, Secretary to the Department for Evangelisation and Catechesis (Bishops' Conference of England and Wales)

Beloved Disciples: Beloved Disciples has been very well produced and excellently presented with a balance of seriousness and humour, with personal experiences, which succeeded in keeping the interest and interaction of viewers. It was successful in encouraging those in the later part of life, to experience blessings which many felt previously they had missed. These DVD’s would be suitable for use by any Christian denomination.

Gerald, Tywyn, Wales

We thoroughly enjoyed The Gift, which we used on a daily basis for our retreat. Each of our sisters express their gratitude to you for making The Gift; many have received graces from the course. Every blessing on your work.

Mother Damian and Community Poor Clare’s, Hawarden

CaFE have been producing much needed high quality DVD resources for many years. Working together with CaFE on a new series about Our Lady will be a real blessing to pilgrims visiting Walsingham and for parishes around the country.

Mgr John Armitage, Rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham, Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady

I would highly recommend the Beloved Disciples course for the over sixties; it is an excellent course. The people who came got so much out of it, including myself and my wife. Some elderly people were taught to fear death, but the way it was put over in the course was that death was not something to be frightened of, but rather to be accepted and looked forward to as our next step along the journey.

Rev John Steele, Ely

The Big Picture I would like to thank you for producing this wonderful resource. It has helped me to pray the Bible, giving the Holy Spirit the opportunity to inspire and strengthen. The readings are a wonderful mix of the familiar and the less familiar exploring salvation history in an accessible way. The weekly meetings have helped us develop confidence in discussing our faith, allowed us to support each other and developed our community. We aim to begin The Gift in September

Course Leader, St John Fisher Parish

In the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis tells us, 'The Father never ceased to show, in various ways throughout history, his divine nature.' The Big Picture Course is an ideal opportunity to reflect on and to respond to the mysteries of the Father's mercy.

Fr. David J Oakley, Rector St. Mary's College, Oscott

The Big Picture is a very good follow-up course to The Gift, and I am recommending it to others. It is so good to have this as a follow–up to Life in the Spirit courses. Thank you very much.

Mrs F Graham (Chair of Wales Charismatic Renewal)

We would like to thank you all for this wonderful course, The Big Picture. We recently used it for our convent Lenten Retreat and found it so accessible, the interactivity and sharing so fruitful. 5 stars and more!!!
We can’t remember a course that the Community have enjoyed so much and got so much out of than this; the layout, the material have met such a good and fine balance. It really seems this is one of a kind. This course is life giving on a level that really matters.

The Poor Clare Sisters in Hawarden

The Gift...a great blessing and a wonderful resource. Well done!

Fr. David J Oakley, Rector St. Mary's College, Oscott

The Gift...we had 35 people to our opening night! No Parish programme has ever been so well attended...the atmosphere was amazingly positive and Spirit filled.

Group leader, Northants

This course is a fresh and modern approach to Baptism preparation and I highly recommend it

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

You may be familiar already with the quality of the material distributed by CAFE and if not, this is a wonderful opportunity to see some of that material in this new collection. It will be well worth the time and money spent on it.

Edmund P Adamus

Director for Marriage & Family Life Diocese of Westminster

We were told that the parish would experience a mission with a difference. Many of us were used to the old style mission where the missioners spent a week visiting house to house to invite people to a week of services that concentrated on hellfire and damnation. They were meant to put the fear of God into us. The CaFE mission instead put the love of God into us. The range of talks and reflections reminded us that our God is a God of love and compassion. The Mission team reached out to different groups, the old and the young, men and women, but with a central theme of how we encounter the Lord in so many ways. We are following up the Mission with a series on prayer called Strength to Strength. We are being renewed as a parish and as individuals.

Canon Vincent Berry, Tring

I can offer no higher praise than to say that watching these Saints DVDs constantly lead me to prayers

Bishop John Crowley

Those who come for the CaFE sessions find the talks very viewer-friendly. They can connect with the faith teachings. The small group discussions that follow help them grow not only in faith but also in community

Gwen Pinto, Chairperson

Archdiocesan CaFE Promotion Team (ACPT),Singapore

It was fantastic. It’s given me a new enthusiasm for scripture

CaFE Guest, London

Strength to Strength - the practical benefits of daily prayer (prison course)...

I have learnt to be more disciplined, first when I wake up I do my prayers, then start my new daily routine

Participant 1

I have found this course brilliant, it has really awoken my prayer life

Participant 2

I feel able to support my children better in their search for faith

Parent, Brighton

We have just used the Saints in an ecumenical prayer group and many non-Catholics were 'bowled over'. The whole course was inspirational and very much enjoyed

Chris, E. Yorks

The Sacraments – transforming everyday life … The DVDs are professional and modern and will appeal to young and old. I particularly love the Q&A sessions as they are just the questions I would ask and the answers are easy to understand and very profound. The best series so far – thank you!

Clare, Abingdon

I am using the new Sacraments series with my RCIA group. We have been needing such a resource and this is perfect

Fr Pat Foley, Watford

The Sacraments – transforming everyday life … I have used CaFE materials for many years and found this series really is an excellent resource as a parish course. I was able to fit each sacrament within a short meeting and still have enough time for discussion and to make it applicable to the parish."

Fr Neil Bayliss, Sutton Coldfield

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