About us
We currently meet monthly. Most of our meetings are in Leicester, but our members come from across the Midlands. Our meetings include social events, day trips or watching movies of interest to our members. Occasionally we organise retreats and meetings with invited speakers. Some of us, living in Leicester, have been gathering for Morning Prayer most weeks for nearly 20 years. We meet every Wednesday for Morning Prayer and breakfast at 7.30 am at members’ homes in the city or online during the current COVID situation. We are keen to make links with other LGBT+ Christian and multi-faith groups locally.
Contact us by Email: questinthemidlands@questlgbti.uk. We will be happy to answer your questions or provide you with further information regarding forthcoming activities. If you are on the Group’s mailing list and would like to join the group members’ Facebook page, a closed group for members of Quest in the Midlands, get in touch and we can invite you to join this.
COVID19 Information
During the current situation with COVID we’re not meeting in person, but we continue to hold monthly meetings and morning prayer online using GoogleMeet. Please get in touch if you’d like to join us for our events. If you need emotional support during this crisis period you can find a list of organisations that can offer this on our “Contact Us” page here.
If you are looking for pastoral support in the Diocese of Nottingham you could email the Diocesan LGBT+ Ministry team by email lgbt.pastoral@dioceseofnottingham.uk.
Who are we
We are an inclusive, informal group of people supporting each other to value and integrate our faith with our spirituality and sexuality. Anyone supporting the group’s purposes may join us: it is not necessary to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or Catholic. Group members come from across the East and West Midlands areas and we try to plan events across the year that will be accessible for most people across that wide geographical area.
Forthcoming Events
Autumn is planning time for Quest in the Midlands. We’ve just put together a new timetable of events which take account of COVID19 but which is also hopeful about being able to meet in person.
What we did before COVID
In May 2019, members of Quest in the Midlands and friends from around the country joined together for what has become an annual weekend retreat at Mount St Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire. The weekend was an occasion to depart from our busy lives to grow and develop our faith, through prayer and reflection. We extended our thanks to the community at Mount Saint Bernard for their hospitality.
We had a trip to York to attend the Middlesbrough Diocese monthly Mass for LGBT+ Catholics on Sunday 14th July at the Bar Convent alongside Quest in the North:
In August a group of us went to the Quest conference in Winchester to hear former President of Ireland Mary McAleese (and chat with her over coffee):
and attended Mass in the beautiful chapel at the University of Winchester:
A couple of us were at Greenbelt over the August Bank Holiday Week:
and the Quest banner was taken through the streets of Leicester by the Chair of Quest during Leicester Pride!
Some of the other things we did included:
A picnic and stroll around Wollaton Park in Nottingham
A walk in Lathkill Dale
Going to the Nottingham Diocese Mass for LGBT Catholics in Derby (2017)
and the Nottingham Diocese Mass for LGBT Catholics in Nottingham (2018)
We also …
… meet informally outside our schedule of events for meals, theatre, cinema. Get in touch by email (questinthemidlands@questlgbti.uk) for more information.
Local links that you might like to visit
- The Leicester Theological Society webpage can be found here.