Marriage and Family Life News

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

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