On Saturday 21st November, the Zimbabwean Chaplaincy led a nationwide online event to celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. Zimbabwean Catholics living across the UK joined together for a virtual day of celebration, which included prayers, the...
During the forty days of Lent we go into the desert with Jesus to discover anew the love of God, confront our temptations and allow the angels to minister to us (Mk 1:13). We turn again to Christ who calls us, 'Repent and believe in the Go...
A response of tenderness
' To the pandemic of the virus we want to respond with the universality of prayer, of compassion, of tenderness ' , said  Pope Francis, just before Holy Week and Easter , as the virus ripped through almos...
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...