To coincide with the celebration of Good Shepherd Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, five individuals, each at a different stage in priestly formation, have shared their vocation stories. Two of the interviewees described how they put off the...
Lent, which began on Ash Wednesday, offers 40 days of preparation for the resurrection of Christ at Easter. It is a season which, as Pope Leo says, “invites us to place the mystery of God back in the centre of our lives” (1). We hear in the…
God has given you a wonderful patron! John Ruskin described St Hugh as ‘the most beautiful sacerdotal figure known to me in history.’ You are right to celebrate him with full solemnity! He was not the last monk in England to be made a bishop.…
We have knelt in silence, marking the moment of the death of Jesus. We have heard the solemn proclamation of the words: 'It is accomplished'. Now, for us, the cross is no longer simply an instrument of torture but a sign of victory. That...
'What have you given up for Lent?', my friend Molly asked me as she scanned a cucumber through the Sainsbury's self-checkout and placed it in her stripy reusable bag. I felt completely at a loss for an answer and found myself rattling off...