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Dear friends, I started to draft this week's mailing on the train back from Belmont Abbey in Herefordshire, where I have spent the past three nights on retreat. [...]

Dear friends, The great prophet Amos, who - as this Sunday's first reading relates - spoke in the name of the Lord to God's people, was nevertheless taken [...]

Dear friends, Although today the church is in use as a polling station for the General Election, yet the round of daily worship continues unchanged - with Morning [...]

Dear friends, The psalmist calls us to '[l]ook towards [the Lord] and be radiant': like the rays of the summer sun, which warm and burnish all that they [...]

Dear friends, (Fr Richard will return from annual leave on Tuesday, 25 June.) This Sunday's Gospel reading tells of Christ's calming of the storm over the Sea of [...]

Dear friends, This coming Sunday is the secular celebration of Fathers' Day - but it is also therefore an opportune moment to pray for our priests (our spiritual [...]

Dear friends, This week's mailing begins with the sad news of the unexpected death of our friend and brother Peter Coe - a stalwart of St Mary's, and [...]

Dear friends, This evening (Thursday, 30 May) Fr Jason has kindly agreed to officiate at Evening Prayer (5.45pm) and Mass (6pm), in my absence and the absence of [...]

Dear friends, What a truly special occasion last weekend's May Devotion was: thank you so much to all who were able to support it! Fr Mike has kindly [...]

Dear friends, We are now counting down the days until our May Devotion this coming Saturday, 18 May - and praying fervently for fair weather! A reminder that [...]