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PRAY FOR RUSSIA
May 13th is the day the Church honours Our Lady of Fatima and her appearances. What's that got to do with Russia? Rather a lot, it would...
Phil
May 126 min read
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FINAL STATION
All: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever...
Phil
Apr 1917 min read
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STATION 6 - VERONICA WIPES THE BLOOD AND SWEAT FROM JESUS'S FACE "Of you my heart has spoken: "Seek his face." It is your face, O Lord,...
Phil
Apr 152 min read
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A BURDEN SHARED
Cyrene was situated in modern-day Libya, on the northern coast of Africa. Settled by the Greeks in 630 B.C. and later infused with a...
Phil
Apr 23 min read
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER
STATIONS OF THE CROSS - 4 - Jesus meets His Mother on The Via Dolorosa We adore you O Christ, and we praise you, because by your Holy...
Phil
Mar 223 min read
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CROSSWAY
YOU WERE AN INCOMER....... . before you first knocked on my door, You were a Stranger, far from home, and yet you made me feel that I was...
Phil
Mar 84 min read
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"A True Lent"
To Keep a True Lent - Robert Herrick 1648 Is this a fast, to keep The larder lean? And clean From fat of veals and sheep ? Is it to quit...
Phil
Mar 55 min read
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PLAIN SPEAKING
A "Times"Reader, MM of Hendon, asked “Times” Etiquette expert Philip Howard: “Have you got a polite way of...
Phil
Feb 194 min read
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Churching of Women
"The Woman, at the usual time after her delivery, shall come into the Church decently apparelled, and there shall kneel down in some...
Phil
Feb 14 min read
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Teenage Jesus
During Christmas our attention is turned towards what for many is our favourite version of Jesus. Jesus the Baby……. Through the...
Phil
Jan 14 min read
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MARY OF THE AMERICAS
Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe - the patron of The Americas. According to tradition, Mary appeared to Juan Diego, who was an...
Phil
Dec 12, 20243 min read
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IF I RULED THE WORLD
In "Oliver!", Harry Secombe as Lionel Bart’s Mr Pickwick promised “If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of ...
Phil
Nov 26, 20244 min read
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"I am an Ultra-Catholic...."
"THE ULTRA CATHOLIC" Father E. L. Mascall, sometime Professor of Historical Theology. ... "I am an Ultra-Catholic-No ‘Anglo-,’ I beseech...
Phil
Nov 16, 20244 min read
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Fr.Brownsell
Ena Macdonald, parishioner of All Saints Notting Hill, gave her Tribute at Father Brownsell’s farewell Mass on the 28th January, 201 8. “...
Phil
Nov 1, 20242 min read
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ALFRED,PATRON SAINT OF CAKE-MAKERS?
KING ALFRED THE GREAT Born in the year 849, Alfred was the king of the West Saxons who effectively brought to an end the constant threat...
Phil
Oct 26, 20246 min read
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THE CRYPTIC SHROUD
"The Shroud of Turin is either the most awesome and instructive relic of Jesus Christ in existence... or it is one of the most ingenious,...
Phil
Sep 7, 20245 min read
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THE MYSTERIOUS SHROUD PART TWO
"The Shroud of Turin is either the most awesome and instructive relic of Jesus Christ in existence... or it is one of the most ingenious,...
Phil
Aug 31, 20243 min read
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shrouded in mystery
When I was in my second curacy (we had two curacies in “the olden days”) in a remote market town in the middle of Fenland Cambridgeshire,...
Phil
Aug 27, 20244 min read
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MAX EFFECT
Raymond Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in Zdunska-Wola, Poland. He was a lively and clever child, he felt drawn to follow Our Lord...
Phil
Aug 12, 20243 min read
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RETIRED
"I'm often asked, in a kindly way, if I'm enjoying my retirement, and immediately that conjures up a picture of armchairs, pipes and...
Phil
Aug 5, 20244 min read
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