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“It is not good for man to be alone.”

Sunday 7 October 2018

19th Sunday after Trinity (27th in Ordinary Time) Dear friends, These words of God are spoken in the story of our creation, at the beginning of our existence. It reveals a fundamental truth about what it is to be human. We are social creatures and in printed into our DNA is the need to be […]

Adoremus Liverpool

Saturday 29 September 2018

A couple of weeks ago Sheila and Fr Thomas went to the Adoremus Congress in Liverpool. Some of the details and talks can be found on the Catholic News website. Following the pilgrimage, Sheila gave a report after mass, over cake: As you may know I attended the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and conference in Liverpool […]

Happy Michaelmas!

Saturday 29 September 2018

Today is the feast that, in our Anglican days we called St Michael and All Angels. Now we have to get used to it being the feast of the archangels, St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael. There are some lovely folk traditions associated with this feast and we use the recipes from the Lavender […]

Dream of the Rood: Christ as hero.

Thursday 29 March 2018

Over the Christmas break, our eldest, home from university, was wrestling with a couple of essays. I was called on to proof read each draft and give feedback. One was an Old English task, looking at three texts, one of which was the poem “The Dream of the Rood.” The poem tells the story of […]

How Lent is like running.

Wednesday 21 March 2018

Eighteen months ago I began running. I have managed to establish a routine and have gradually built up. I am still running embarrassingly short distances embarrassingly slowly, but I am running. Both last year and this, I have noticed a similarity between running and Lent. One lesson learnt early on is that every run is […]

Msgr Keith Newton

Pastoral Letter from the Ordinary

Monday 8 January 2018

Mgr Keith writes on the highlights of 2017/2018, including the Ordinariate Families’ Fund to support clergy families. The Governing Council has mandated a second collection for this next week.