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Dear Brothers and Sisters, Those of us who pray the Divine Office, the Prayer of the Church, benefit from reading the book of Esther at the Office of Readings, but the book appears rarely in the Lectionary for Mass. Queen Esther finds herself…
“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…