The Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year
Cari amici, Ciao da Roma: greetings from Rome! I am thinking of you all as I spend this week on holiday, and have lit a candle for the parish in the Holy City. This week is the first [...]
The Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year
Dear friends, A large group from Kenton joined friends from Willesden and Kingsbury - and, indeed, hundreds of other pilgrims from parishes across the country - for a wonderful time in Walsingham this week on Monday, at the Pilgrimage [...]
The Twenty-First Sunday of the Year
Dear friends, One of the areas in which congregational growth is happily evident is at our weekday Masses: approximately a third of our regular congregation now also comes to one or more weekday services, which see attendance of [...]
The Twentieth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends, A church not unlike our own once hosted a summer parish barbecue, and set out the salads and sweets to share on a trestle table in the garden. At one end, beside a basket of apples, the priest had [...]
The Nineteenth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends, Last Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Transfiguration, in which a foresight of Christ's Resurrection glory was gifted to his disciples, before he underwent his Passion. This Sunday, we look ahead to next week's beautiful [...]
The Transfiguration of the Lord
Dear friends, This Sunday coming is the Feast of the Transfiguration, of which the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wrote, 'Today the liturgy invites us to focus our gaze on this mystery of light. On the transfigured face [...]