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Dear friends, The late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wrote of the Lord's Prayer (which we encounter in this Sunday's Gospel reading) that only Christ, the Only-Begotten Son, can [...]

Dear friends, In this Sunday's first reading, Abraham encounters the Lord in mystery in the visit of three strangers. Here in the Old Testament is a vivid foreshadowing [...]

Dear friends, This Sunday's parable of the Good Samaritan provides us with the negative notion of passing by on the other side: we use this turn of phrase to [...]

Dear friends, (Fr Richard remains on annual leave, until Tuesday, 8 July.) Fourteen years ago today, in Southwark Cathedral, I was ordained a deacon: even those who are [...]

Dear friends, This Sunday the Church celebrates the great saints and apostles Peter and Paul, upon whose confident and courageous proclamation of Jesus Christ as Lord the continuing [...]

Dear friends, The Church's calendar moves us swiftly from the transcendence of the Trinity to the visceral immanence of the Body and Blood of Christ, as we prepare [...]

Dear friends, We offer our condolences, and the assurance of our prayers, to those in our local community affected by the Air India 'plane crash in Ahmedabad earlier [...]

Dear friends, Please note that there will be no public Morning Prayer or morning Mass on Saturday this week, 7 June; however, Evening Prayer and the 6pm Vigil [...]

Dear friends, At Mass on this coming penultimate Sunday of the season of Easter, we hear in our first reading of the death of the protomartyr St Stephen, witnessed by [...]

Dear friends, As we move through the Easter season, towards Pentecost, we are reminded in this Sunday's Gospel reading of the power and importance of the Holy Spirit [...]