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Dear friends, This Sunday's Gospel reading emphasises the attitude of gratitude we should all endeavour to cultivate: God is good, and affords us wise guidance and many graces [...]

Dear friends, I write to you on the memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. Each of us has been given a guardian angel by God, as a heavenly protector [...]

Dear friends, (Fr Richard remains on annual leave, until Tuesday, 30 September: please refer to the pew sheet for changes to the regular Mass times in his absence; [...]

Dear friends, This weekend we mark our Patronal Festival, in honour of Our Lady of Walsingham. At both Masses, we will celebrate the Liturgy of Sprinkling with Walsingham well water: [...]

Dear friends, St Andrew of Crete wrote of the coming celebration, 'We are celebrating the feast of the cross which drove away darkness and brought in the light. [...]

Dear friends, This week's mailing arrives a little later in the day than usual, but with a bumper crop of news on which to feast: please therefore read [...]

Dear friends, In this Sunday's first reading at Mass, the scribe Ben Sira reminds us that 'an attentive ear is the wise man's desire': in other words, it [...]

Dear friends, This Sunday at Mass, our responsorial psalm will be the two, succinct verses of Psalm 117(116), familiar to us perhaps from the service of Benediction. The response [...]

Dear friends, In November 1950, Pope Pius XII spoke of 'the wonderful harmony and order of those privileges which the most provident God has lavished upon [the Blessed [...]

Dear friends, Greetings from Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham, where - with nine of our young people (and hundreds more from across the country!) - I am taking part [...]