Evangelisation News and Features
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
The account of the Visitation is a well-known story, one that is made immediately present whenever we sing or say the Magnificat, the song that Mary sang to her cousin Elizabeth. Mary's is a life of service and praise. There is also a real...Read more
May is marked by changes in nature. It is the season when the restraint of winter gives way to an abundance of new growth and colour. It is a time when flower shows gather apace, stimulating a wider interest in horticulture, garden design and...Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster Mothering Sunday is a multi-layered celebration, which ranges from gratitude for the grace of baptism (the ancient tradition of visiting your baptismal...Read more
Some years ago, when my mum first passed away, it was difficult to sit where we always sat together for Mass on Sunday, because she was missing. Now, whilst I still miss her, my heart is at peace in the hope that she is with the Lord. However,...Read more
Written by Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster When my son was in his last year as a chorister his sister, who was in her sixth-form, arranged for all her friends to send him a Valentine...Read more
When we are young, we have no real concept of being old. Why would we? To be young is to rest securely at the centre of all things. A better way to see things is that the very young are better absorbed in life, living in the 'now' and...Read more