On Saturday 2nd December the Community and guests gathered, at Howe Close, for a talk by researcher Dr Cormac Begadon (University of Durham). Cormac shared details and insights following exciting…
Dear Friends, Advent is here again! This year, just because of dates, it is a ‘short’ advent – the 4th Sunday of Advent is Christmas Eve. So we better get…
Dear Friends, Gosh – end of November – Feast of Christ the King &, next weekend, the beginning of Advent. The Feast of Christ the King can be a bit…
Dear Friends, November always seems to me to be a long month! But we are now over half way through. But in these last weeks I have been haunted by…
Dear Friends, We hope this last week has been a good one for you, on balance anyway, & that you have escaped the worst of the storms. Remembrance Sunday –…
Dear Friends, November begins, in the Church, with the great feast of All Saints, followed the next day by the Commemoration of All Souls. And then a bit further into…
Dear Friends, Earlier this month we had a Week of Prayer for Prisoners & their Dependents. The focus in our attachments strays around direct reflection on prison but also touches…
Dear Friends, This weekend we have World Mission Day. Amongst the attachments is something Pope Francis has written on this subject stressing that the message that needs to be given…
Dear Friends, Hoping that you are enjoying these strangely warm autumn days and finding the time to enjoy all that we are surrounded by. For some of us, maybe the…
We were hugely grateful to Megan Knowles from Jesuit Refugee Service, and to James, Michael, Florence and Basirat who shared their experiences as refugees seeking asylum in the UK. A…