On the afternoon of Sunday 19th June in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Salisbury the question asked as the title of this article was asked of a congregation of about 1,000 people. The person asking the question was the newly inaugurated Bishop of Salsibury The Right Revd Stephen Lake during his [...]
The Saint Kenelm Pilgrimage takes place on Saturday 23rd July at St Peters Church, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, starting at 10.30. For more details and timetable, please click here for the programme. You can also visit their website by clicking here.
I have the great privilege of living in Truro which is a delightful Cathedral City that has managed to preserve that ‘small market town’ feel, located in the County of Cornwall in the South West of England. Cornwall is known as the ‘Land of the Saints’ and is steeped in Celtic Christian tradition. Christianity has flourished [...]
As I am writing this article, I am just recovering from the Walsingham National Festival, this year held on the early May Bank Holiday. As usual it was the wonderfully uplifting event it always is with the added joy of being the first one for three years! It was great to meet up once again [...]
The Ebbsfleet parishes in Birmingham range across this large and diverse conurbation. In the north of the diocese, nearer to Sutton Coldfield than to Birmingham itself, is my own parish of Saint Mark, Kingstanding and Fr Barry Smart’s parish of St Luke, Kingstanding. The area which our two parishes serve is basically one huge council [...]
The Wolverhampton Episcopal area of the Lichfield Diocese covers most of the Black Country. A place with a rich and proud industrial past that has shaped the present. There are a number of Society parishes here, most of which were born out of the places where the poor Victorian working classes lived, worked and [...]
‘When you die, that’s it. Nothing. Out like a light!’ That’s what the man in the pub said, and his mates all nodded, though the one whose mother had died the week before wasn’t really quite so certain. Still, it seemed to make sense. After all, we know what ‘dead’ means: dead leaves, dead batteries, [...]
Full details of the 2022 Vocations Conference on the ACS website. Click here
Looking back to Lent 2020, in my parishes here in Torquay we embarked on “The Way Through the Wilderness” as our course for the season. The aim was to look at how people encounter God in the desert places and seasons of life. Then the first COVID lockdown occurred, and we were brought into the [...]
It was a great honour for Fr. Robert to be appointed by Bishop Jonathan as his representative in the Diocese of Gloucester - on a zoom call during Lockdown! The traditional catholic constituency in terms of parishes is modest comprising of All Saints, Cheltenham (Fr. Robert Wright), and Ss Phillip & James, Up Hatherley, (Fr. [...]