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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]