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