Ordinations to the Permanent Diaconate 2020
Ordinations to the Permanent Diaconate 2020
Every month the Pope has a particular prayer intention; Catholics are asked to include this intention in their prayers. In May of this year the Holy Father’s intention was the Deacons of the Church. In presenting his intention he said deacons…Read more
World Day for Migrants and Refugees 2020
World Day for Migrants and Refugees 2020
Given at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees in Westminster Cathedral on the 26 WDMR 2020 There is constant movement in our relationship with God. We are either gradually moving towards or away from him. The Gospel today (Matt…Read more
Service of remembrance on the eve of the Feast of All Saints of Ireland
All the saints of Ireland Each year we commemorate all the saints of Ireland. It is good that this year we celebrate in this chapel of St Patrick, the spiritual ancestor not only of all Irish saints but of Irish people. Only four of those Saints ...Read more
Celebration of St Oscar Romero
Given on the eve of the canonisation od St Oscar Romero, at St Ignatius, Stamford Hill Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him.  He looked steadily at him without speaking but attempting to convey only understanding and love and invitation O...Read more
Are you going home for Christmas?
Are you going home for Christmas?
Christmas Reflection 2017 ‘Are you going home for Christmas?’ In this season I am often asked this question. It is a well-meant conversational piece. ‘Perhaps in the New Year,’ I reply, imagining what Christmas would be like in parishes...Read more
Diaconate Ordinations 2017
A vocation to the diaconate and the priesthood is a strange thing. It slips into someone’s heart and initially the one who has received this vocation does not know what it is, sometimes it is present in a longing of the mind, in a desire which c...Read more
Mass for Bereaved Parents
In Lent we remember how Jesus on the cross cried out, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me’, words which express his anguish and the separation he experienced between himself and his Father. Until then he had felt close to God; now he see...Read more
A Real Expression of Love in Action
On Thursday 1 The programme, working on six essential principles, leads us to examine our style of life and relationships with others and creation, asking ‘Are they in harmony with the values of the Kingdom of God’?   First we are asked...Read more
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