Have you still got your crib up at home? I have. It's a custom I learnt from abroad. I know, in England, we tend to take all the Christmas decorations down after the New Year; or, if not at the actual New Year, around 12
The way it's descri...
Although I am connected to Allen Hall, at the moment I am not a resident seminarian there. This is because I completed most of my seminary training many years ago at the English College in Rome. I was rapidly approaching ordination at that time bu...
by Fr Mike Maguire
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Recently, the 'under 5's' went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The under 5's are a group of Westminster deacons and priests who have been ordained less than five years, meeting a few times a year with Fr Gerard Sk...
The late, great Cardinal Basil Hume OSB, when ordaining new priests in the Diocese of Westminster, used always to remark on how people would presume that the men being ordained had been tested to see if they were strong enough. No, suggested Dom B...
Given at the Mass of ordination of permanent deacons at Westminster Cathedral on 8
My brothers and sisters, it's a well-established and rich part of our tradition and heritage of faith that we begin each day with a morning offering. My mother...