The words of the Entrance Antiphon for the Mass of this feast day proclaim Joseph to be the 'faithful and prudent steward whom the Lord set over his household.' This same proclamation is echoed in the Preface of the Mass, too.
It has had a more...
Over one thousand people gathered at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday 17 Cardinal Vincent Nichols presided over the liturgy with Bishops John Sherrington, Nicholas Hudson, Paul McAleenan, and Fr Gerard Quinn (Episcopal Vicar). During the Rite of…
Given for the Corpus Christi celebrations in Douai on 19 Mass Homily I first came to Douai in the very week I left seminary. We were were a small group of seminarians; and we wished to retrace the steps of the first students from our College.…
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was born on 24 August 1932 in Reading, Berkshire, the fifth son of Dr George Murphy-O'Connor and his wife, Ellen.
His brothers Brian and Patrick were priests of the…
Today we give thanks for the 175 years in which the Sisters of Mercy have worked and ministered in this Diocese of Westminster, based first in Queen Square, in Bloomsbury, and then, since 1851, here at St Edward’s Convent.
Back in 2006, on 11...