Posts by Fr Neil Chatfield

A new home

Sunday 28 March 2021

This year the Personal Ordinariate of our Lady of Walsingham celebrated ten years of its existence. In human terms the fact that we are still here after that length of time is against all the odds. For this part of the Ordinariate, in Eastbourne, we have seen many joys and a few sorrows in the […]

Lifted to life

Monday 15 March 2021

The Lord raised up upon the Cross is the One we are to look towards to find the healing for the sting of death.

Two anonymous engravings combined by Scott LaPierre

Foreshadowing the Sacrifice

Thursday 4 March 2021

The angel of God stays Abraham’s hand, and the story points forward to Christ’s sacrifice through whom the promise to bless all the nations will find its ultimate fulfilment.

Jesus heals the leper, unknown mosaic

“I will: be clean”

Monday 15 February 2021

The sacraments are the place where we can seek out Christ, beg his mercy and receive his touch of healing and restoration in the body of Christ.

Christ among the Doctors, Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), c.1560; Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Son of the Father

Monday 1 February 2021

Our Lord speaks with profound authority, not through the loudness of his voice or the manner of his presentation, but because he speaks as Son of the Father — as God himself.

The wine of Heaven

Monday 18 January 2021

How we need to hear these sage words of Our Lady, “Do whatever he tells you.” They are simple words but the means by which we gain salvation, fulfil our vocation, are animated in the Spirit, encounter the wonder of his glory, and glimpse the heavenly banquet of the Kingdom.