In his letter for this Year of St. Joseph, and very prophetically in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard,Pope Francis says, “The nobility of Joseph’s heart is such that what he learned from the law he made...
Catholics everywhere are asking questions about whether it’s moral to have a Covid vaccine, as some of them have origins in tissues taken from an aborted child. Fr Bob Eccles helps us with this serious and difficult question, based...
Noting how the devil’s temptations of Jesus resemble children’s make-believe games, Fr Bob Eccles invites us to accept the wonderful, transformative reality of God’s Easter love. On the first Sunday of Lent, the Church always has us listen to...
Ash Wednesday Mass is at 7.30 am, in the cloister (to allow extra space) and will also be broadcast on Radio Maria. For Covid safety, ashes will be sprinkled on top of your head (which is also the ancient...
In a time of fear and longing for touch, Fr Colin Carr reflects on Christ healing the leper (homily for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)). We all have feelings about cleanliness: we spend a lot of...
Fr Bob Eccles looks very honestly at those days (maybe a lot of them during this present time) when we’ve had enough – and introduces us to hope, in the form of the Sacrament of the present moment… Have...
“The truth which has called us. This truth is much less the truth we find than the truth that finds us.” Fr Euan’s sermon for the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. St Thomas Aquinas, whose feast we celebrate in...
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. We pray for all the victims of the Holocaust, for the healing of memories, and for the perpetrators. The British Jewish community is focussing its attention on ongoing oppression and genocides of peoples in...
Now for the good news… Fr Bob Eccles reminds us of how the Holy Spirit unites us all in the Holy Eucharist, whether we can be physically present at Mass or not. Many tax-collectors and sinners were also sitting...
The 2021 Aquinas Lecture, Yearning for Transcendence: Christian Platonism and Werner Beierwaltes, was given on Thursday 28 January on Zoom by Professor Douglas Hedley, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge. We were pleased to see new...