Evangelisation News and Features
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Lent for couples is less a season of individual sacrifice and more a shared journey of conversion. At its heart is the choice to make space together for grace, tenderness, and truth…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator. Many years ago, following the death of my mother, I went on a pilgrimage to visit the church where I was baptised. Unusually for the time, this took place when I was seven months…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Marriage Care was born from the Church’s pastoral instinct, with a dual identity. Rooted in Catholic Social Teaching, it is Catholic in origin, and compassionate in outlook. It is…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory may seem far removed from our theme of “carrying the cross with hope,” this Lent, yet they illuminate one another in surprising…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Marriage Week is an annual celebration offering the opportunity to support and promote marriage and family life. It is celebrated from the 7-14th February. This year we are invited…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator My ministry is focused on the accompaniment of couples from the time of engagement and preparation through to ongoing accompaniment and enrichment. This also includes journeying…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator In the run-up to Christmas, I attended a one-man show of Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol, where there was the opportunity to chat with the actor afterwards. He made one…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Being a Christian involves belonging. As Pope Francis says, 'Our identity is one of belonging. To say I am a Christian means to say, "I belong to the Church. I belong to the People…Read more
Had I been Bishop Nicholas Hudson, I would have be tempted to request that the date of my episcopal installation be on the Feast of St Nicholas, which we celebrate on the 6th December. St Nicholas’ life was not one of bringing luxuries, albeit…Read more
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