An interesting read from Michael Carter in The Tablet…
Relics of the Holy Blood were (indeed, still are) venerated across Europe. They proliferated in the 12th and 13th centuries, a time of intense, and often highly emotional, devotion to Christ and His sufferings.
Greetings to you all and hope you had a lovely Christmas. In response to some emails requests received for a copy of the Christmas Homily I have edited it slightly in order…
Synodal Continental Assembly of Prague, the commitment of the bishops The bishops of the European continent have undertaken to develop further “a synodal Church,” following the indications of Pope Francis,…
Apparently the new liturgical texts were introduced prematurely in South Africa in 2008. This article is interesting, in that it gives some idea of how they were received in that…
Reminder that first Wed healing Mass in Lady’s Island has been changed to the following week Wed Oct 9th at 3pm. Tue 24th Sept – The Homeward Journey In my…
One of the rich veins of wisdom in Francis’ words to the bishops of the U.S.A.
“Dialogue is our method, not as a shrewd strategy but out of fidelity to the One who never wearies of visiting the marketplace, even at the eleventh hour, to propose his offer of love (Mt 20:1-16).
The path ahead, then, is dialogue among yourselves, dialogue in your presbyterates, dialogue with lay persons, dialogue with families, dialogue with society.
I cannot ever tire of encouraging you to dialogue fearlessly.”
Gerry O’Connor, CSsR and ACP Leadership team: ‘Big Picture’ Homily for 22nd Sunday Year B 1 Sept 2024. Link:
Venerated in Bruges to this very day.
A blog post on the 1968 Holy Blood procession there.
https://bezoeken67.blogspot.com/2018/07/holy-blood-procession.html
Isn’t it long after time we launched a petition to progress the cause of joint-canonisation of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn? On second thoughts, those reports of “the deaf had ther heryng aright” might tempt me to reinstate medieval Inglands favourite relic – in Ingland ther were bot few hym lyke.