Archives for October 2021

The cloud of witnesses

Sunday 31 October 2021

It is the saints — led by Mary — who continue to pray for us that we might be open to see and believe the way to eternal life that is in Christ, revealed by his word, lived by the saints, proclaimed in the magisterium of the Church and celebrated in the sacraments that enable us, by God’s grace, to embody our fullness as children of God.

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

Surrender, do not succumb

Monday 18 October 2021

Christ has faced death and triumphed over it so we might not fear the call to follow him through the way of the cross and dying to self.

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali is received into the Catholic Church

Thursday 14 October 2021

The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has announced that Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, was recently received into the Catholic Church.

Let go to inherit the Kingdom

Tuesday 12 October 2021

It is only by letting go, and letting God act in our daily struggle, that we are able to have a foretaste of the manifold beauty of the life of the kingdom, and receive the riches promised by Christ.

Divine Worship : Daily Office — A very short guide

Tuesday 12 October 2021

Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) contains Morning and Evening Prayer from the Anglican prayer book tradition, now approved for use in the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariates. This post is a potted précis of how to pray the Offices, either in a short form or in the Prayer Book tradition. It’s for laypeople: clergy know what to do!

The Fulfilment of the Law

Tuesday 5 October 2021

The sacrament of marriage provides one of the main models for, and language of, understanding the relationship between God and humanity in the covenantal promise, between Christ and his bride the Church, and the final consummation between heaven and earth in the renewed creation.