Lent has begun! I hope you’re all brimming with enthusiasm! This is the first Sunday of Lent, and only another six weeks to go to Easter...

Back in 2012 the film For Greater Glory hit the screens. It was set in 1920s Mexico concerning the government’s attempt to wipe out the...

How do you remember your school days? What were your teachers like? I realise there are some people here who are still at school, some...

Today’s Gospel and first reading are about loving enemies and showing mercy. David is being pursued by King Saul, and at one point he...

You may have heard of the Sermon on the Mount. Today we hear the beginning of what is sometimes called the Sermon on the Plain, and...

This month of February is our deanery month for vocations, and you probably spotted last week that on the back of the bulletin there is a...

Today is one of those feast days that can catch you out. We are now in Ordinary Time, but today’s feast is one of a handful of feasts in...

Today we celebrate Sunday of the Word of God, but how did the Bible, and more particularly the New Testament, get to be put together? We...

Last month, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica, ushering in the beginning of the Jubilee Year. There are various...

Today we come to the end of the Christmas season in church. In some ways, that fact might seem a bit sad. I remember when I was growing...

In Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester it says: “It is the old story that all the beasts can talk in the night between Christmas...

When I began training for the priesthood, my first year, year zero in effect, was spent in Spain at the English College in Valladolid....