Marriage and Family Life News
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
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Coordimnator for the Diocese of Westminster - reflection written for the Alliance of Catholic Marriage Organisations One of the many pleasures of the summer break is snuggling down to read a…Read more
Bt Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster One of the many party games I liked as a child was pass-the-parcel. It is a seemingly simple game with the main prize hidden amongst many layers of…Read more
The Holy Family have arrived and are already settled in. Now, after all the hustle and bustle of the journey, we too are making our way to Him. Hurry! Our Advent calendar has enabled us to mark the days on the journey towards the crib and helps…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster The concept of the journey is a powerful one in scripture, speaking of movement and direction. In life, we too are on a journey into faith, one that…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Co-ordinator for the Diocese of Westminster Our Advent journey has begun. We only really know what a journey is like once we have embarked upon it. Until then it simply an idea, only when…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Coordinator, Diocese of Westminster When I was a child part of the structure of the holidays was to select and spend time writing postcards. The gentle art of the postcard has now been overtaken…Read more
Bt Reverend Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life CoOrdinator for the Diocese of Westminster Many years ago, there was a television series, based on the book by Thomas Pakenham titled ‘Meetings with Remarkable Trees’. It was an astonishing…Read more
By Reverend Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Coordinator for the Diocese of Westminster On Saturday afternoon we gathered with other couples in the cathedral to participate in the Mass of Thanksgiving for Matrimony and renew our vows. In…Read more
By Deacon Roger Carr-JOnes, Marriage & Family Life Coordinator, Diocese of Westminster There is a world of difference between the term ‘Will you be my Valentine?’ and that of the phrase ‘Will you marry me?’. The first might leave you with…Read more
By Reverend Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Coordinator, Diocese of Westminster Family life can move from times of stability and security into moments of upheavl and uncertainty. At the birth of Jesus, for Mary and Joseph the arrival of…Read more
The great benefit of making a journey is that it can provide a much-needed space for reflection and thought. Although we can prepare for a journey, get the right tickets, guide books and read the literature, it is only in setting off that the…Read more
With all that has happened over the last twelve months it is quite easy to overlook that we have been celebrating the Year of St Joseph. Pope Francis declared this year in his Apostolic Letter Patris Corde in which he writes “Each of us can…Read more
In this striking image of the meeting of Blind Bartimaeus with Jesus, the Bulgarian artist Julia Stankova provides a sense of expectation and empathy between the two. The able-sighted crowd are the distracted ones. Jesus is the one who listens,…Read more
By Reverend Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Co0rdinator for the Diocese of Westminster I have three vocations: Christian; husband and deacon, it is the former that informs the whole and for me, Zacchaeus is the model of domestic…Read more
Marriage Care are the largest faith-based relationship support-specialists in the UK and was founded in the Diocese of Westminster in August 1946 in response to the significant breakdown in marriages following the war. 75 years on the need to…Read more