Our Bishops Conference has been meeting this week (as it does every year in November) and you can find details of… Posted by St Edmund’s Church, Beckenham on Friday, November 20,
Continue readingAs I have indicated in homilies the Holy Father’s reflections at his general audiences on Wednesdays, and at the Angelus… Posted by St Edmund’s Church, Beckenham on Thursday, November 19, 2020
Continue readingAID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED’S PILGRIMAGE STATIONS OF THE CROSS—LIVE STREAMED ACN invites you to join them in prayer on Thursday the 19th November at 5.00 pm, as Father
Continue readingThis Monday is the feast day of our patron, St Edmund of Canterbury. We know him by this title because he was indeed the Archbishop of Canterbury (1233-1240). He is
Continue readingThis Sunday, the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, is the fourth World Day of the Poor. The Holy Father’s message for today, from the website of the Irish Bishops Conference,
Continue readingIn addition to our livestreamed Masses at 10am and 6pm today, there will be a Mass at 115pm livestreamed to the Diaconate formation community for most of the dioceses in
Continue readingToday is the feast of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, declared to be patron saint of migrants by Pope Pius XII seventy years ago in 1950. A great saint in the
Continue readingRabbi Jonathan Sacks, who has died, was a fine religious leader and a good friend of several Catholic leaders, including Cardinal Nichols. May he rest in peace. I recently reviewed
Continue readingOur dear Fr Simplicio has finally left us. Having returned to us at St Edmund’s to assist during the first lockdown, rather than remain on his sabbatical, he has now
Continue readingWith great regret we have to announce that (unless the government is defeated in the House of Commons tomorrow) we have to close the church for public worship from Thursday,
Continue reading