Evangelisation News and Features
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Hope in the shadows is a contemporary phrase used in Ignatian Spirituality. Ignatius speaks of finding God in difficult times: in this month of the Holy Souls has themes of loss,…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator It is said that music has the capacity to express our emotions more easily than words, as it bypasses language and communicates directly through sound, rhythm, tone and on occasion,…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Just like cake-making, scripture comes in a variety of forms. This image of cakes serves as a useful analogy for conveying the complex, varied and often fulsome flavours of…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator For me, a great pleasure of the summer is to spend time searching along the seashore for small fragments of sea-glass. It is a very simple pastime, which connects me to the beauty…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Cordinator At this precise moment, which form of rest do we most desire this summer: physical, social, emotional, spiritual, or creative? Do we find it easy to move away from ‘doing’ so…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator The theme of the Fifth World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, to be held this year on Sunday 27 July, is “Blessed are those who have not lost hope” (cf. Sir 14:2). Taken…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones. Marriage and Family Life Cordinator, Do you use music in your prayer? Praying with music is not only a good way to pray, it often provides the medium to share our emotions. One the members of my prayer group,…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Father’s Day is the opportunity to give thanks for the gift of being a father and to reflect more deeply on the meaning of fatherhood. This year it will be bittersweet for my wife…Read more
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By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster - If we were looking for a jigsaw, in which the pieces and the overall image changes, then we would have the ideal analogy for marriage. In the time…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Co-Ordinator , Diocese of Westminster The British seem to specialize in unusual and offbeat radio programmes, one of which is the obituary oLast Word. Here the life of the person is summarized…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Cordinator, Diocese of Westminster Marriage Week provides a moment for couples to reflect upon, pray about and celebrate the quiet witness of married love. God is the author of marriage, which…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster In a good music album, all the songs flow together well, providing a cohesive theme or narrative. When a couple first meet, they bring with them their…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator, Diocese of Westminster Marriage and family life provides one of the most effective models of liminal spaces of transition, listening, waiting and sometimes not knowing. These are…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-JOnes, Marriage and family Life Coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster Pope Francis has chosen a line from Psalm 71 - "Do not cast me off in my old age" - as the theme for the 2024 celebration of the World Day for…Read more
I am a parent and a grandparent: however, I have always felt slightly uncomfortable when Father's Day comes around. I am never really sure what to do or expect. This is because there is a gap in my life. I grew up without either a positive or...Read more