CCS Study Series: Hidden Histories

We were delighted to attend Durham University Centre for Catholic Studies two-evening online event in March 2021.  The series of talks focussed on the importance of the archives of religious congregations, from the break with Rome to the present day Dr Cormac Begadon and Dr Hannah Thomas were on the panel of speakers and spoke…

MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK

Leader: We pray that in this holiest of weeks, we may come to              a new understanding of the events we call to mind each              day.  We ask that this will lead us to live our lives more              in the pattern of that of Jesus. Let us pray in the              name of…

Palm Sunday

Leader: We tell your story.  We follow in your footsteps. All:     Lead us into Holy Week. Leader: We walk with you towards the city.  We wait in the garden. All:     Lead us onto Holy Ground. Leader: We journey with you towards death.  We hope for resurrection. All:     Lead us into Holy Joy.   Please join in…

Saturday Reflection

Dear All, Here we are on the brink of Holy Week & tomorrow is Palm Sunday. We have included something Cardinal Hume wrote about Palm Sunday leading into Holy Week.  We also have a sonnet for Palm Sunday by  Malcolm Guite. It has often struck me as significant that in our Dutch-speaking communities in Belgium,…

Friday – Week 5 of LENT

Fast from pessimism; feast on optimism   Leader:     O God, come to our aid All:           O Lord, make haste to help us.  Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.   Please join…

TUESDAY in the 5TH WEEK of LENT

Fast from problems that overwhelm; feast on prayer that undergirds     Leader:     There is no place where you cannot reach, Lord, All:        God who made the heavens & earth. Leader:     There is no journey which you have not travelled, All:        God, who shared our life in Jesus Christ. Leader:     There are no people beyond…