We are celebrating the Annual Mass for our deceased relatives and friends, in particular those buried in our cemetery, on Saturday 2 November (All Souls’ Day) at 2pm at New Hall in the School Chapel. The celebrant will be Fr Martin Hardy who is one of the team serving the Chelmsford parish and chaplain at…
Dear Friends, On October 8th, next Tuesday, we celebrate the 382nd anniversary of our Community’s Foundation in Liège. It is a day of great thanksgiving for us & one of remembering our forebears both in the Low Countries &, in the last 230 years, in England. Mindful of that we are giving you rather…
You may be interested to read the article written by Dr Cormac Begadon, about our Community and school in Liège. It appeared in the Tablet in September 2024. ENLIGHTENED ATTITUDES
Dear Friends, Hoping you have had a good week or at least one that you were able to manage without too much difficulty. Last week our reflections focused on Autumn in a general way. The theme this week also has an autumnal feel to it but centres in on trees, and the falling of leaves. …
We began a second year of our series ‘Today’s Big Questions: towards a Christian Response’ with a fabulous in-person talk at New Hall by Prof Tina Beattie. The talk was entitled We need to talk about gender: Christian approaches to challenging questions for changing times. Tina tackled the complex issue of gender and sexuality, and…
We are inviting applications for Senior Carer position as per below: Recruitment – Senior Carers 2 x part-time Experienced Senior Carers required to work in a unique position within a small Religious Community based in Colchester – The Canonesses of The Holy Sepulchre. We are looking for individuals that are warm-hearted, professional, compassionate…
Dear Friends, Unsurprisingly, our theme this week is Autumn. A few themes come again & again: completion, gratitude, bounty, harvest and so on. We speak of the autumn of life – those of us who are living it know it is sometimes a struggle but maybe a focus on all that Autumn brings us –…
Dear Friends, Good to be back with you & Saturday Reflections. We hope these last weeks have been good ones for most of you, though I am sure amongst us there will be some sadness & distress. Today’s blessing comes from Sacred Pathways & is called ‘Deep Peace’ May those of us who have had…
Dear Friends, Today we have some reflections on the theme of summer. For most of us it has been a hot week & we hope that you haven’t found it too uncomfortable. What a strange summer it has been – so much wet dull weather & then this extreme heat. It is the…
Dear Friends, Yesterday was the feast of Edith Stein & her writings are very accessible so today we have chosen as our reflections some excerpts from those writings. A bit of background for those who aren’t familiar with her story: Edith was a Jewish convert to Catholicism, very well educated despite numerous obstacles, and…