Lent… Today’s Saint: St Patrick, Apostle of the Irish 17 Mar 201917 Mar 2019 Introduction from the Confession of St. Patrick, an autobiography I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many. My father was…
Lent… Today’s Saint: St Patrick, Apostle of the Irish 17 Mar 201517 Mar 2015 Introduction from the Confession of St. Patrick, an autobiography I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many. My father was…
Lent… Today’s Feast: The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 26 Mar 201225 Mar 2012 A tradition, which has come down from the apostolic ages, tells us that the great mystery of the Incarnation was achieved on the twenty-fifth day of March. It was at…
Catechesis… Today’s Saint: St Benedict, Abbot & Co-Patron of Europe 21 Mar 201221 Mar 2012 Overrun by half-civilized pagan and Arian hordes during the fifth century, Italy and the entire Mediterranean world was falling back into barbarism. The Church was torn by conflict, city and…
Lent… Today’s Saint: St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne 20 Mar 201220 Mar 2012 Cuthbert was born in North Northumbria in about the year 635 - the same year in which Aidan founded the monastery on Lindisfarne. He came from a well-to-do English family…
Catechesis… Today’s Saint: St Joseph, Foster-father of Jesus 19 Mar 201218 Mar 2012 St. Joseph was an ordinary manual laborer although descended from the royal house of David. In the designs of Providence he was destined to become the spouse of the Mother…
Lent… Today’s Saint: St Patrick, Apostle of the Irish 17 Mar 201217 Mar 2012 Introduction from the Confession of St. Patrick, an autobiography I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many. My father was…
Catechesis… Today’s Saint: St Gregory the Great, Pope & Doctor of the Church 12 Mar 201212 Mar 2012 St Gregory the Great Pope, Doctor of the Church St. Gregory, born at Rome about the year 540, was the son of Gordianus, a wealthy senator, who later renounced the…
Catechesis… Today’s Saint: St John of God 8 Mar 20128 Mar 2012 Whatsoever you do to one of these the least of my brothers and sisters, you do to Me. It is now five centuries since the birth of St. John of…
Liturgy THE HISTORY OF LENT 23 Feb 201224 Feb 2012 BY THE VERY REV. DOM PROSPER GUÉRANGER, ABBOT OF SOLESMES The Forty Days’ Fast, which we call Lent [In most languages the name given to this Fast expresses the number…
The Brighton Oratory 