So once again we enter the Christmas Season. Although truth be told, most of the major retailers have been in Christmas mode since October, and our cities and town councils have followed this haste or should I say heist, by early November with their Christmas Markets and their Christmas lights switch on. Certainly, in most places long before the First Sunday of Advent “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” even if it’s not. And there lies the problem. In rushing into t

On Tuesday 4 November 2025, officers and staff from police forces around the country gathered with serving and retired members of the Guild in Westminster Cathedral to celebrate the 102nd Annual National Police Requiem. Representing HM Government was The Minister Of State for Policing, Sarah Jones MP and also in attendance was The Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp MP. The Chief Celebrant was the Guilds' National Chaplain, Fr Barry Lomax. His co-celebrants were RC Priest Cha

Thursday 16 October Ss Margaret Mary Alacoque, Hedwig and Richard Gwyn Following on from previous day : the small matter of meeting His Holiness The Pope and afternoon tea in the UK Ambassadors residence, we resumed our pilgrimage and met once again at Piazza Pia for what was our last full day in The Eternal City. This particular location is at the end of the Via della Concilliazione, the long road that leads away from St Peters Basilica and it is also the starting point for

Wednesday 15 October St Teresa of Jesus, Doctor of the Church The day started very early with a planned 0630HRS meet for the group at the Piazza Pia which is a familiar Roman landmark situated at the opposite end to St Peters Basilica on the Via della Conciliazione. Wednesdays are set aside for the general Papal audience in St Peters Square and there had been much anticipation leading up to this day given that we knew that Chris had, via contacting his local Archdiocese secur

Tuesday 14 October St Callistus I, Pope and Martyr The morning was taken up with a bit of free time for the group before we met up and took an open top bus tour of Rome to see all the usual tourist sites and fully appreciate the Rome traffic jams and the Italian way of driving ! Following the tour and some lunch, the group assembled at the Venerable English College for daily Mass. In his homily, our National Chaplain Fr. Barry Lomax mentioned the terrorist attack that had tak

Monday 13 October St Edward the Confessor Every twenty five years the Church celebrates a Jubilee Year. In 1300, Pope Boniface VIII called the first Jubilee, also known as a “Holy Year,” since it is a time in which Gods holiness transforms us. The frequency of Holy Years has changed over time: at first, they were celebrated every 100 years; later, in 1343 Pope Clement VI reduced the gap between Jubilees to every 50 years, and in 1470 Pope Paul II made it every 25 years. Ther

Celebrating the Feast of St Michael - 29 September 2025

The 2025 National Police Requiem will celebrated on Tuesday 4 November 2025 at Westminster Cathedral, Victoria St, London commencing at...

Today (Sunday 22 June 2025) the Church celebrates The Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, a feastday known as Corpus...

"With our prayers, we now entrust the soul of our beloved Pontiff to God and trust that He may grant him eternal happiness in the bright...

The death of His Holiness Pope Francis has been announced by The Vatican. He passed away, aged 88, on 21 April 2025. May he rest in peace.

Resurrexit sicut dixit! He has risen, as he said! Wishing all a Happy and Blessed Easter.

The Church spends this day in prayer and fasting, meditating on the Passion and death of Jesus and awaiting his Resurrection. This...

Christ Crucified is a 1632 painting by Diego Velázquez According to the Gospel accounts, the Royal Guard arrested Jesus in the Garden...

It seems to me that no sooner have we packed away the tinsel, baubles, lights and tree than we are once more in the season of Lent and...