“Lift up your heads and see, your redemption is at hand!” This is the great cry of Advent guiding our preparation for Christmas. My dear friends, one thing in life is more important than all others: our relationship with God. It’s from God…
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…
On 1 October the Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, visited the Cardinal Hume Centre to bless the newly opened Basil Hume House. The building houses five flats, providing the young people who are resident at The Centre with the…
By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Just like cake-making, scripture comes in a variety of forms. This image of cakes serves as a useful analogy for conveying the complex, varied and often fulsome flavours of…
Our parishes should be more than just places of worship, more than somewhere the faithful file into every Sunday, and then slip away without even a word. They are centres of community: places where people from all walks of life gather, bound by a…