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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 in the Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage this week. Almost 1,000 years [...]

Dear friends, Tickets (£12.50/£5) remain on sale for our summer barbecue (on Saturday, 16 August), either for cash, by contactless payment or by using this link - if using the link, please enter the total payable, and then [...]

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 pray, "My Father". 'By contrast, the rest of us have [...]

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 of the revelation of God as Trinity - Father, Son [...]

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 describe the behaviour of those who neglect to help others [...]

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 subsequently ordained as priests (or even as bishops!) do not [...]