Archives for March 2021

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 […]

Fr Thomas to lead the Darlington Ordinariate Mission

Sunday 28 March 2021

The Ordinary has decided that the time has come for Fr Thomas to move on and to care for his own parish, and he is to become Group Pastor of the Darlington Ordinariate Mission, and Parish Priest of Barnard Castle & Gainford (in the Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle), around the end of May.

The Cross shines forth

Monday 22 March 2021

“God is love”, love which is willing to go to any extent, even the death of the Cross, to call us back from our sins. This is why the Cross is glorious.

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.

Ecce Homo, St Albert Chmielowski (1845–1916), 1879–1888; Albertine House, Krakow

Holy Week and Easter 2021

Sunday 14 March 2021

Due to the current requirement to restrict numbers in church, more than one celebration of the days of the Sacred Triduum is provided where that’s possible. All the details are together on their own page.

Sermon on the Mount (detail), Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834–1890), 1877; Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark

The fulfilment of the Law

Sunday 7 March 2021

With God’s grace in our hearts, the Law can help to purify our minds, can help us to grow in true love; can help us to grow closer to God.