Dear Sisters and brothers in Christ, dear friends, It is always a joy to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. This year we also rejoice to glorify the word of the Lord as we offer Mass together, in this Jubilee Holy Year, with its theme of Pilgrims of…
Our final day in Lourdes began with a Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace; a grace that has been given to many of us over the course of the week, and which we hope to bring home with us to a world in ever greater need of it. In…
Awake, my soul; Awake, lyre and harp, I will awake the dawn. (Psalm 108:2) And awaken the dawn we did, for this morning it was finally time for our long-anticipated Mass in the Grotto, the very place where Our Lady appeared to St Bernadette! The…
'We hope that the lessons, insights, grace, and the understanding we received this week will stay with us in this task of building up the Church day by day. We thank Mary, Mother of the Church, for guiding us, gathering us, for nurturing us and...
The fifth day of our pilgrimage in Lourdes was marked by a Mass in the Grotto where Mary had appeared to Bernadette, and the Blessed Sacrament procession led by the Diocese of Westminster. Cardinal Vincent celebrated Mass for the feast of St...