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Last Sunday I joined thousands of people in St Peter's Square waiting to receive the blessing of Pope Francis. I was surrounded by families: babies asleep in prams, young children crawling on the cobbles, older children entertaining each other, te...
Given at the Chapel of the Chelsea Pensioners on Remembrance Sunday 8 November 2015. One hundred years ago, not today but at the beginning of May, John McCrae stood in the field of the second battle of Ypres, looking at the place where his fri...
At the beginning of our ceremony this evening we used words which expressed our hope and prayer: 'May the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.' The darkness is real, this week shown most emphatically on ...
In these days of Holy Week we have said 'Hosanna', save us. We have heard the In the First Reading, we heard the words of Isaiah: 'He shall be lifted up; raised to great heights.' We shall be both appalled and amazed. We witness him being...
Given at the Easter Vigil of the Holy Night, 15 Today in these words of majesty and in this sumptuous music we celebrate and we sing of his new life. We read of echoes of his victory in the past, in the history of Israel. We hear that it is ours ...