Thomas Hatton says farewell to Synod I joined General Synod in November 2015 and represented Southwark Diocese. My principal motivation for standing was that it had no traditional catholic lay representation, which considering the number of Society parishes needed [...]
Fr Aidan CR passed away in peace on Friday 17th September. He was in his 91st year and the 58th year of his profession in the Community. Bishop Peter Wheatley offers a personal recollection I know the London Parishes [...]
Luke Miller looks at what martyrs can teach us about mission and ecclesiology They are not of the world any more than I am of the world… As you sent me into the world, I sent them into the [...]
Norman Banks contemplates death and discipleship through Our Lady of Sorrows ‘Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven’. (Isaiah 7) I have an image in my [...]
Mark Michael makes the case for public worship and its part in the life of faith I have expressed concern that the normalization of so-called hybrid worship in our churches may accelerate trends toward “worship switching” among contemporary Christians, [...]
S KYNEBURGA, CASTOR, HUNTS Few places in England have such evidence for the continuity of human settlement and of Christian worship as does Castor. In Roman times, the garrison town of Durobrivae stood nearby. In 1975, ploughing at Water [...]
Arthur Middleton on Dogma, Devotion and Life In 1939 Canon Demant pubished an important book The Religious Prospect. but because of the outbreak of war it did not attract the attention it deserved. In it he stated that the [...]
John Gayford on a medieval treasury The Legenda Aurea originally called Legenda sanctorum (Reading of the Saints) was written by Jacob de Voragine O.P. in 1259-1266. The word “legend” has changed its meaning over the years; it was originally [...]
Robin Ward celebrates the author of the Divine Comedy, who died on 14 September 1321 This year is the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante, the poet of whom T S Eliot said, ‘Dante and Shakespeare divide the [...]
Lionel Jarvis Prior of the Order in England, takes us on a journey across 900 years The Order of St John of Jerusalem came into existence as a pilgrim hospital in Jerusalem the late 11th Century. The early visitors [...]