A welcome and reassuring feature of the Westminster Lourdes Pilgrimage is the red tabard worn by a Redcap. Without their selflessness, enthusiasm and generosity in service, there would not be a pilgrimage. They are so important to the day-today...
Advent begins, and with it the familiar mixture of joyful anticipation and mild panic. For many, the season involves travel: trains to see relatives, buses to nativity plays, tubes to office gatherings. Anyone who has done this knows the agony of…
As we entered St Peter’s Square for the Canonisation Mass we were greeted with wonderful images of our two new saints-to-be: Piergiorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. There were two huge portraits of the young men fashioned into tapestries which…
It is with sad news we announce the death of Fr Aidan Bede Sharratt. He died peacefully yesterday evening, 22 April, at St Anne’s Care Home in Stoke Newington with Little Sisters of the Poor, and Sr Clement, praying at his bedside. Fr Aidan was…
On Saturday 10 Many priests from the five dioceses concelebrated the Mass. They were joined by family and friends of the ordinands, who filled the Cathedral with prayers and joy for the men, as they took the next step in their journey towards...