News Archive
- Vocations
Three Permanent Deacons OrdainedOn Saturday, 23rd June, Cardinal Vincent ordained Alex Burke, Kingsley Izundu and Colin Macken to the permanent diaconate at Westminster Cathedral.
more - EducationA meeting of generations in Yeading and Potters Bar
Two of our primary schools recently welcomed grandparents and older neighbours to special celebrations. On 25th May, St Raphael’s Primary School in Yeading held a Pentecost party, inviting elderly relatives and neighbours from their local com...
more - EducationHealthcare placements for St Thomas More pupils
This year, the Reach Out for Healthcare Science Programme has once again offered a number of Year 10 pupils from St Thomas More Catholic School, who have a passion for science, placements on the programme. The placement is a fully-funded work expe...
more - Main NewsPeter's Way of the Cross at the Old Bailey
In late May, under the tenants of ‘mercy’ and ‘justice’ and watched over by a statue of Elizabeth Fry, the Victorian prison reformer, the choir of the Lourdes pilgrimage performed a unique and beautiful rendition of the Stations of the Cro...
more - Main NewsThe Miracle of Lourdes
In just a few weeks’ time over 600 people from our diocese will travel to the south of France with Cardinal Vincent to Lourdes, that truly wonderful and inspiring place where the things of heaven touch the things of earth. They will be going ...
more - Main NewsJubilation at Wembley Parish
On Thursday 31st May, a thanksgiving Mass celebrating the Golden Jubilee of ordination of Fr John Menonkari CMI, Parish Priest at St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Wembley was celebrated by Bishop John Sherrington and attended in large number by pari...
more - Main NewsCTS: 150 years of evangelisation
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Catholic Truth Society (CTS), Cardinal Vincent, along with bishops and priests from the around the country, celebrated a thanksgiving Mass at Westminster Cathedral on 19th June, the anniversary of the death in ...
more - Main NewsCorpus Christi: ‘With suppliant hearts we come’
Thank-you to all the parishes who responded to the Cardinal’s request for some form of public worship of Our Eucharistic Lord around the Solemnity of Corpus Christi as part of the preparation for Adoremus, the Eucharistic Congress to be held in ...
more - Main NewsProviding comfort in times of distress at sea
By Gregg Watts Last year, when the container ship CMA CGM Africa Four called at the port of Tilbury in Essex, the crew contacted the seafarers’ centre and asked for Mass to be said on board and for the ship to be blessed. Apostleship of the ...
more - Archbishop'We will strive to renew our priestly mission and purpose,' says Cardinal
In a pastoral letter read in parishes on the Nativity of St John the Baptist, 24 Looking to the example of St John Southworth, ‘a key patron of priests of this diocese,’ the Cardinal calls him an ‘inspiration and intercessor us’. The bo...
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