Hope you can join us this autumn for Guild events around the country. Making a return after a long absence this year is the Hallam Diocese Mass kicking things off on the 20th September which the Central Council will be represented at. There is more to come, and everything is on

“The most deadly poison of our times is indifference” - St Maximillian Kolbe, Priest, Martyr. 1894 - 14th August 1941.

"I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’" . Today is the feast day of St Clare. St Clare is often depicted with the Blessed Sacrament in a

We're pleased to announce that you can now apply for the Silver Medal or the Silver Medal of Merit online. ✅ The Silver Medal is award to a server who has been enrolled in the Guild for 10 years. ✅ The Silver Medal of Merit is award to a server who is an enrolled member of

The first of two modern day martyr feasts this coming week today being the Feast of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Edith Stein, who lived from 1891 - 1942. Brought up in the Jewish faith in Germany, she had a bright academic career, receiving a doctorate in Philosophy at the

“Every consecrated host is made to burn itself up with love in a human heart”. Today is the feast of St John Mary Vianney, the ‘Curé d'Ars’, the Patron Saint of Priests, famed for his preaching and hours listening to confessions and the spiritual turnaround of the community he

"Fool!" Dramatic language from Luke in today's Gospel account in the 'Parable of the rich Fool' as both the readings and the Gospel tell us of the dangerous and pointlessness of our human desires and earthly possessions, and that our focus should be on our love of the Lord, our

On this Year C cycle of the Sunday Readings of the 17th Sunday OT, we hear Lukes account of a series of parables from Jesus, ‘Ask, and it will be given to you.’ and his account of the instruction of the 'Our Father' and the importance of prayer. Have a great Sunday everyone, if

“Mary sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving.” Jesus visits the house of Martha and Mary in the Gospel reading today, and like us who serve at the Altar, Martha finds it easy to get lost in the business of occasion, the

On this 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time the church celebrates 'Sea Sunday' and the work of seafarers around the world. Our globalised economics rely on the work of the men and women who work at sea, not just in naval militaries, but in merchant shipping, fishing, leisure and

RT @catholicEW: The Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, Pope Leo’s representative to the Church in the UK, has celebrated a….

“But starting from when I was around 6 years old, I was an altar boy in the parish. And so, before going to school -- it was a parochial school -- there was Mass at 6:30am, and my mother would wake us up and say ‘We’re going to Mass!’ Serving Mass was something we really loved,

"So that by the keys of St Peter and the words of St Paul,.and by the support of their intercession,.God may bring us happily to that homeland.that Peter attained on a cross.and Paul by the blade of a sword.". Happy Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul!. "Delivery of the Keys" by

Today is the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, “Corpus Christi”, one of the two days given over not to any saint, but to the Eucharist itself, the other being Maundy Thursday. Today’s Readings and Gospel rightly focus on this most precious gift, the Source and Summit of

We’ve returned to Ordinary Time, but the poor Sundays of Ordinary Time are going to have to wait a little longer to get back in on the Sunday action. Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, God in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Oft depicted using “Triquetra”

We are at the end of ‘Volunteers Week’, a week to highlight the good work of volunteers in our communities. In the readings today for this Solemnity of Pentecost we hear St Paul say ‘Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but

‘I see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.’ It is the 7th Sunday of Easter and the First Reading today at Mass gives us the story of our patron St Stephen. Stephen was a Deacon and the first Martyr for the faith. He said that he had a vision of God in heaven with

"God goes up with shouts of joy; the Lord goes up with trumpet blast." Happy Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, a Holy Day of Obligation, 40 days since Easter Sunday.