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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A "Times"Reader, MM of Hendon,                        asked “Times” Etiquette expert Philip Howard:   “Have you got a polite way of...

"The Woman, at the usual time after her delivery, shall come into the Church decently apparelled, and there shall kneel down in some...

During Christmas our attention is turned towards what for many is our favourite version of Jesus. Jesus the Baby…….   Through the...

Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe - the patron of The Americas. According to tradition, Mary appeared to Juan Diego, who was an...

In "Oliver!", Harry Secombe as Lionel Bart’s  Mr Pickwick   promised “If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of  ...

"THE ULTRA CATHOLIC" Father E. L. Mascall, sometime Professor of Historical Theology. ... "I am an Ultra-Catholic-No ‘Anglo-,’ I beseech...

Ena Macdonald, parishioner of All Saints Notting Hill, gave her Tribute at Father Brownsell’s farewell Mass on the 28th January, 201 8. “...

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...

"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,...

"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,...

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,...

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...

"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...