I recently had cause to write a short piece on whether or not the Celtic Church was a separate organisation from the Roman Church (it wasn’t!). During my background reading, I came across various [...]
Courage, je pense a vous. A fellow Chevetogne oblate messaged us the morning of February 24th 2022. He knew that my husband is originally from Ukraine and that our family and friends were still there.
I’ve been reading Pope Francis’s letter, Desiderio Desideravi, which he sent on 29th June to the whole Church, to help us contemplate the beauty and truth of the Liturgy.
A few weeks ago, I had a short stay in Paris. I was eager to go to Notre Dame Cathedral once again on my visit, to see how the restoration was progressing after the tragic fire in April 2019.
The solemnity and feast of St Benedict in July is a marker point in the year, an annual occasion for gathering of community, for clothings, oblations and renewals of oblation.
I usually try to link my offering for the home page to the Rule of St Benedict, after all that is what oblates are meant to use to guide them through life.
We, the Oblates of Stanbrook, have been mulling over the idea of Synodality. Synodality is very much the buzz word but it is a neologism and no one is quite sure what it means or what Pope [...]
It would seem in the space of two thousand years, everything that could have been written about Easter, has been, except of course our own stories. As children of the Resurrection Easter is [...]
On 18th September, following three intense years of study and training, I had the privilege of being admitted and licensed by our Bishop in Salisbury Cathedral as an Anglican Licensed Lay [...]
The Presentation, forty days after Christmas, is the big liturgical feast of February, when Jesus is brought by his parents to the temple to consecrate him to the Lord, and his significance is [...]
