
Caritas Award Journal: e-version
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Love – caritas – is an extraordinary force . . .
Pope Benedict XVI, Westminster Cathedral, 17th September 2010
The Pope Benedict XVI CARITAS AWARD encourages and promotes the ongoing faith journey of young people. It recognises that some are already active and committed within their homes, schools, parishes and dioceses and it invites others to respond to God’s call of love. It supports and celebrates the faith witness which young people give within their communities.
Introduced in 2011, as part of a legacy of the UK visit of Pope Benedict XVI in September 2010, this award asks young people to use their faith learning as a starting point for further faith reflection, leading to actions which show their faith witness. Participants in the Caritas Award will be supported in deciding how they can develop and use their gifts in a way that witnesses to God’s love (“Caritas”) in their communities.
Any pupil in their final year of school can be enrolled to participate in the CARITAS AWARD. Parishes may nominate young people for the award, where no Catholic school is available to do so. The award is designed to be inclusive of all young people and is open to all pupils who can meet the succes criteria for the award. Pupils can choose how they would like to record and share their learning, reflection and witness from a number of formats. Pupils studying at all levels will be able to achieve the requirements for the award.
(Each year schools are required to send details of pupils who have been assessed by the school, as successfully gaining the CARITAS AWARD, to SCES by February 28th. Verification visits will take place during March and confirmation of the award will be sent to schools by April 30th)
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Support for Caritas Co-ordinators At the beginning of each school session SCES host a meeting for alread more
Schools can now register pupils in their final year of school for the Pope Benedict XVI Caritas Awarread more
Some excellent prayer and reflection resources for schools to mark Refugee Week 2022, and details ofread more
All Caritas schools are invited to send us their photographs documenting their Caritas year!
All 4 Gathering Points are now available in Sway format to help with learning at home. They can be fread more
If you need extra resources for either Caritas or PFFA pupils, please contact mail@sces.uk.com  read more
Advice Note sent to schools on 30th August 2020 available here
The current uncertainty could impact heavily on schools’ ability to deliver the Caritas prograread more
Had it not been for the current Covid-19 restrictions, we would have been holding our meeting for Caread more
CARITAS AWARD pupils are expected to participate in at least 4 Gathering Points which prompt them read more
1 What is the Pope Benedict XVI Caritas Award? The CARITAS AWARD has been established by the Bishopsread more
Monday 6th June 2016 was a glorious day in Glasgow for the celebration of the faith-filledread more
On Wednesday 3rd June 2015 3,000 people packed the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow to celebrate the servread more
On the 8th June 2017 we celebrated the 6th annual Caritas award ceremony. Over 1,000 young people read more
The Caritas Award Ceremony will take place on Thursday 7th June 2018 at 2pm in the Clyde Auditorium read more