News for Sunday, 21 September (Our Lady of Walsingham)
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: the psalmist says, 'My soul is thirsting for God, even [...]
News for Sunday, 14 September (Holy Cross)
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. As we keep this feast, we are lifted up with [...]
News for Sunday, 7 September
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 the following notices carefully. Thank you very much for your [...]
News for Sunday, 31 August
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 is more blessed to listen than to speak. Many centuries [...]
News for Sunday, 24 August
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 text which accompanies them comes from St Mark's Gospel, and [...]
News for Sunday, 17 August
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 Virgin Mary,] this loving associate of our Redeemer, privileges which [...]