Evangelisation News and Features
The beautiful Advent Tradition, Bambinelli Sunday, was instituted by Saint Pope John Paul II during his Papacy.
The tradition follows that on the Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) children and adults bring their Baby Jesus figures from th...Read more
Jesuit Media Initiatives and the Diocese of Westminster Marriage and Family Life team have joined forces to produce a series of imaginative contemplations to help families journey alongside the Holy Family in prayer this Advent.
The series of s...Read more
We would like to draw to your attention this new partnership, which was launched to a gathering of the Bishops of England and Wales and their Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Coordinators and members of the organisations themselves at the recent ...Read more
Founded on the Catholic Church's vision for marriage and family life, and sensitive to the complex reality of family today, the Companion aims to support parishes, schools and chaplaincies in their interface with families, identifying take-oÂff...Read more
The theme for the World Meeting of Families in Ireland in August was The Gospel of the Family:
The sessions have been written by Pia Matthews - wife, mother, theologian, Bishop John Sherrington and Bishop John Wilson. Forward by Fr Chr.....Read more
by Roger Carr-Jones
Like many others I will be participating in this great event at some distance (having no ticket!), but I, like the rest of our diocesan family, will remain close to all the participants, especially the Holy Father, Cardinal ...Read more
The Carmelites have arranged that the relics of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, and their youngest daughter, Saint Thérèse, will come from Lisieux to Ireland to coincide with the World Meeting of Families 2018.
The Relics will be at the WMOF2...Read more
The Year of Mercy has caught the imagination not only in the Catholic Church but in all churches in a year when the living of mercy has been very absent. Mercy is a word of immense beauty, an offering of infinite riches. When we walk through the d...Read more
Cardinal Vincent Nichols was joined by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, for the closing of the Door of Mercy at Westminster Cathedral on 13 November. Archbishop Welby preached for the first time in Westminster Cathedral at the service o...Read more
by Fr Peter Michael ScottThe other day as I left the tube I heard a man with a microphone yell out 'repent sinners, you cannot change the past'. My local tube station is a lively place. It tends to be the venue for preachers, singers, trumpet ...Read more
On Saturday 9 July, 4,500 parishioners from the diocese travelled on pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk, led by Cardinal Vincent. This was the first time in 30 years that the diocese has made this pilgrimage to the Natio...Read more
When I was 18, I had never heard of Walsingham. Brought up in Devon and attending Anglican 'dull' churches, neither high nor low and barely lukewarm, I could not afford to go home from college at weekends and readily accepted the invitation of...Read more
I am like a spiritual magpie. I collect or steal advice from prayerful people and use it when spending time with God.
I particularly like some of the wise words of St Thérèse of Lisieux. In her beautiful 'Story of a Soul' she writes: 'I...Read more
'The practice of pilgrimage has a special place in the Holy Year, because it represents the journey each of us makes in this life.' (
During this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Pope Francis invites us to make a pilgrimage to a Holy Door....Read more
When you walk towards the hospice you will notice a statue of Our Lady standing on an outside balcony. Her posture is one of prayer, almost as if she has been praying that you will visit.
The name of the hospice is that of Our Lady's husband, S...Read more