We once more celebrate Christmas Day, with the popular and commercialised figures such as of ‘Santa Clause’ – or the Coca-Cola man, as I sometimes call him, after those television advertisements – and reindeer, and mistletoe and wine, and children singing Christian rhyme. I’m really glad, there are still children singing Christian rhyme, because asContinue reading “Giving and receiving (Christmas Day)”
Category Archives: Charity
Dilexi te: the new exhortation from Rome
“The Holy Father Leo XIV has published his first encyclical, entitled Dilexi te, on the virtue of charity and assistance of the poor.”
Funeral Mass for Dom Adrian Convery OSB
Father Adrian, whom many of us know so well, was buried this afternoon. These were the arrangements, and fortunately for those of us who couldn’t find our way up to Ampleforth Abbey, the Mass was live-streamed and is available on Youtube…
Recommended charities
“I’m setting up a list of recommended charities, which is far from complete…”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 