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Is it St Patrick’s Day?

Is it St Patrick’s Day on Sunday 17 March? He does not appear in the calendar this year because 17 March is the Second Sunday of Lent. But this is not as difficult as the rare year when 17 March falls in Holy Week. It can be St Patrick’s Day on Sunday where the local […]

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CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY

This Friday 15 March is Family Fast Day when CAFOD suggests that we forgo our main meal and donate the normal cost to the poor via the charity. CAFOD, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, works alongside Christian Aid to build a world without hunger and war by putting faith into action. Below is soup […]

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Ash Wednesday: NEW START

‘The Christians go mad but thanks to ashes that the Church puts on their heads they come to their senses and are cured of their madness,’ commented the Turkish ambassador to Rome in the 1690s. Carnival ended last night and today, Ash Wednesday, we can receive ashes in church at the start of the Forty […]

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FOLLOW LENT

Keeping Lent & Easter is a paperback guide to following the forty days of Lent and the forty days of Easter. Buy your copy at Church House Bookshop, Southwark Cathedral shop or here.

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BREXIT STOPS PANCAKES

It’s Shrove Tuesday this Tuesday 5 March but there will be no Parliamentary pancake race. Fear of Brexit demonstrations  outside the Palace of Westminster is being given as the reason. However Winchester Cathedral is inaugurating an annual pancake race at noon. There are 20 teams with clergy and city councillors taking part. The relays in […]

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The Holy Family leaves Bethlehem

Today is Candlemas and forty days since the birth of Jesus. We now remember Holy Family leaving Bethlehem and taking Jesus into the Temple in Jerusalem to give thanks for his birth. He would return on the first Palm Sunday 33 years later and today’s readings link us to Holy Week. This is Candlemas because […]

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2019

“Ecumenism is not something optional,” said Pope Francis this week. Today Friday 18 January, the first day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Westminster Cathedral choir is singing vespers at St Paul’s Cathedral. On the following Tuesday 22 January St Paul’s choir will be at Westminster Cathedral to sing evensong. Both services begin […]

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THREE KINGS ARRIVING THIS WEEKEND WITH CAKE

Three Kings biscuits by www.biscuiteers.com  This Saturday night 5 January the figures of the Three Kings will be seen arriving in towns and villages all over Spain. The street processions are big family occasions. Another feature of today is enjoying cutting the Twelfth Night cake. In Spain it is a cake ring called Rosca de […]

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THREE KINGS ARRIVING THIS WEEKEND WITH CAKE

Three Kings biscuits by www.biscuiteers.com  This Saturday night 5 January the figures of the Three Kings will be seen arriving in towns and villages all over Spain. The street processions are big family occasions. Another feature of today is enjoying cutting the Twelfth Night cake. In Spain it is a cake ring called Rosca de […]

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Boxing Day is St STephen’s Day

The Isle of Man has issued a £2 coin depicting the Boxing Day custom of hunting the wren. This is no longer a cruel tradition involving killing a bird but an opportunity for community dancing, dressing up and ‘penny for the wren’ charity collections. The revived custom is also observed in Dublin’s Sandymount Green where […]

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