Visits

Year 6 visit the Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of St Chad, Birmingham each year.

The visit to the Cathedral is seen as a pilgrimage, a grace filled encounter with the Lord in a particular holy place which he has blessed and set apart. The aim of the visit is to give the children a deeper insight into their faith, and to enlarge and deepen their understanding of what it means to be Catholic.

Cathedral Visits focus in particular on

Devotion to St Chad, Patron of the Diocese, at the Shrine of his relics
The centrality of the sacraments, especially Confirmation, in the life of faith and the ministry of the bishop as Christ’s representative and the successor of the apostles.
The diocese as the ‘ particular church’ and St Chad’s Cathedral as its Mother Church

A secondary aspect of the visit is to help the children appreciate the cathedral as an important part of our Midlands Catholic historical and artistic heritage.