The Christmas Stories
How the four Masses of Christmas use different readings from the Gospels to tell the story of Christ’s coming
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by bcadmin | Nov 25, 2021 | December 2021, Features, Life & Soul, Magazine, News | 0 |
How the four Masses of Christmas use different readings from the Gospels to tell the story of Christ’s coming
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2021 | Column, garden, Life & Soul, Magazine, News, November 2021 | 0 |
Thanks to evergreens and pyrotechnics, we have all sorts of ways to ignore the bleakness of winter and look forward to dazzling displays that will soon return
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2021 | Afghanistan, Column, Diary, Gardening, Life & Soul, Magazine, News, October 2021, Refugees | 0 |
Anna Somers Cocks on the plight of those left behind in Afghanistan, the apps offering a window on that country, and the challenges of her Italian garden
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St Birinus, probably a monk of St Andrew’s Benedictine Monastery on the Caelian Hill in Rome, was ordered by Pope Honorius I to England in 634 AD to convert the West Saxons. A year later he landed at Southampton. He succeeded in converting Cynegils, the West Saxon king. The latter gave St Birinus Dorchester-upon-Thames, as
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Read MoreHowever bleak and overshadowed life might seem, lurking among the ruins are moments of true beauty –proof that ‘nothing pleaseth but rare accidents’
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2021 | Arts, Life & Soul, Magazine, News, October 2021, Poetry, St Robert Southwell | 0 |
You might think poets make natural martyrs. Passionate, idealistic, enraptured by visions of artistic immortality; throughout history, barricades and prisons have been crammed full of poetic talent. But the best poets are, by necessity, listeners and observers, detached from the action where martyrs are found. When they strive for heroic death, more often than not
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Faith, Features, Life & Soul, Liturgy, Magazine, News, October 2021 | 0 |
As we grow closer to the poor, little by little we gain their confidence and can advise them in the most terrible moments of this earthly pilgrimage. We can give them the comforting words of faith and we often succeed, not by our own merit, in putting on the right path people who have strayed
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Features, Life & Soul, Magazine, News, October 2021, Prayer, rosary | 0 |
How many millions of miles rosary beads have travelled through troubled fingers only God and his Mother know. How many miracles of grace it has worked in the lives of those who were faithful to this devotion, it must keep the angels busy to record. How many times it has pulled back from the gates
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2021 | August 2021, Column, Life & Soul, News, recipe, Tessa's Feasts | 0 |
Grouse breasts with pancetta and olive tapenade
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After the whirligig of summer, it’s time to stop and think and consider what has worked well in the garden – and what might work next year, says Charlie Hart
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The wonderful historic Catholic churches of Preston should be a priority for restoration – a coordinated approach is needed
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Read MoreThe author and journalist Cressida Connolly negotiates a Communion conundrum, with little sympathy from the priest
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