First Minor Orders
We are pleased to announce that on the Vigil of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, His Grace Archbishop Porteous conferred the first two minor orders of Porter and Lector on Brothers Bede and Gregory. We entrust both brothers as well as the entire community to your kind prayers.
Oblate Brother John Bede Mary
Today on the feast of St John Fisher, the community was blessed to receive the formal oblation of Ronan Reilly under the oblate name of Brother John Bede Mary. The triple patronage of our new oblate is Saint John Fisher, Saint Bede the Venerable and (the future saint, we hope) John Bede Polding, a great […]
Launching Out
4th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s epistle, St Paul tells us that “the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us” (Rm 8:18). This brief sentence shows us the excellence of the glory to which we are called. It is a glory […]
The Good Odour Of Christ
Sacred Heart Even though the love of God for humanity was made manifest in the very creation of the world, was continually recalled in all God’s loving acts of benevolence for His people throughout the Old Testament, was fully revealed in the life and death of Our Blessed Saviour and preached by the apostles, St […]
New Oblate
On the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Notre Dame Priory received the promise of a new oblate in the person of Martine Watkinson who has taken the oblate name of Sister Mary Scholastica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We entrust her to your kind prayers. Fr Prior and Community
Our Only Hope
Corpus Christi Throughout the centuries, one of the most amazing signs of the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church is the way in which errors, far from destroying Her, actually help Her understand better and develop with ever greater precision the truth that was bequeathed to her. In the first centuries the heresies […]
Be Thankful (Col. 3:15)
Trinity Sunday On all her great solemnities, Holy Mother Church seeks to inculcate into our souls the sentiments of love and devotion that are most fitting for the mystery celebrated. At Christmas, our joy is that of the new beginning that changes the world; at Easter, the victory of life over death dispels the darkness […]
Extinguish Not The Spirit
Pentecost Sunday On the eve of His Blessed Passion, Our dear Saviour pronounce these comforting words: If you love me, keep My commandments. And I will ask the Father: and He shall give you another Paraclete, that He may abide with you for ever: the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it […]
Ascension Thursday – Some Thoughts On Our Lord’s Triumph
1) The Great Commission is clear: go and preach to every single person the Gospel message. What is that message? God sent His Son to save the world from its sins and from eternal damnation. In order to obtain that salvation, each person must believe in the Son of God, be baptised and observe all […]
