Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

While looking round the old Medieval Parish Church at Alnwick in Northumberland a few months ago, I got talking to the Steward by whose kind...

150 years since the great Ikon, after repairs, was enthroned in Rome. Prayers for the brthren of the Redemptorist community on Papa Strons...

Back in the 1850s, Cardinal Wiseman had a falling-out with his Coadjutor, Archbishop Errington. For these purposes, we do not need to know m...

Let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice: words said by the Priest as he censes the Altar at the Offertory at High Mass. The ...

In the pre-1960s Roman Rite, during most of Eastertide, the rubrics sometimes ordered that a commemoration at Lauds and Vespers be made of t...

Thirteen hundred years since the Monks of Iona adopted the Roman Easter. So the beautiful calendar produced by their spiritual successors, t...

A day of great whooppee for all good men and women and true, a day marked for us by the birthday of our Holy Father the Pope emeritus Benedi...

There is little point in reading this if you have not read Part 1 Pickstock, drawing heavily upon Bossy, emphatically demanded a positive a...

I noticed the other day the phrase "The Rt Revd Nick Baines Bishop of Leeds". Gosh, I thought, Bishop Marcus Stock must have ...

Martin Luther notoriously, and polemically, asserted "As you massmongers cannot be baptised nor believe for someone else, similarly you...

The Holy Week liturgies afford  ... to put it mildly ... food for thought. Example: those who attended Chrism Masses will have noticed that ...

Because of the pressures of work and family life, although I hope usually to put something on my blog each day , I shall not have leisure to...