James Somerville-Meikle
@JSMeikle
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If found, please return to the nearest pub or Catholic church. It’s pronounced Meekle as in treacle - an old Scots word meaning 'big or large'.
Canterbury
Joined August 2011
A State Visit… an incredible honour! Exciting times for the Church at home and around the world.
🇻🇦🇬🇧 Their Majesties will undertake a State Visit to the Holy See in late October, joining Pope Leo XIV in celebrating the Jubilee Year. A Papal Jubilee occurs every 25 years, and is a special time for the Catholic Church. The visit will also celebrate the ecumenical work by
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Some reflections on the journey so far as a seminarian for @RC_Southwark and on what made me want to be a priest 👇
rcaos.org.uk
James Somerville-Meikle shares his experience of seminary life
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Can’t argue with their prices, but I can with their history! A pretty one sided account of the reformation on display at the #whetherspoons in Canterbury. As another Queen once said, recollections may vary…
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Something is stirring…
🚨NEW: Belief in God among 18-24 year-olds has tripled in 4 years 2021: 16% 2025: 45% (+29) [@YouGov]
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James is a seminarian in our Archdiocese - read about his "growing sense that God was asking me to give seminary a go" Please pray for James, for all our seminarians, and for all men discerning the call to the priesthood 🙏
Hard to put the move I made last summer into words. This is my best attempt 👇
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Hard to put the move I made last summer into words. This is my best attempt 👇
“Like the country, I sensed it was time for a change. But my change was not to be found elsewhere in any area of secular life.” ✍️ James Somerville-Meikle Read here ➡️ https://t.co/BqrviAwxOr
#Catholic #UK #Election
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The Catholic response to violence.
GAZA Cardinal Pizzaballa prays the Rosary with Catholic children in Holy Family Church today
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Very good to hear (even if few in Parliament did!)
I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It’s about the need for a Christian restoration.
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Absolutely horrific. Prayers for the local Church and all involved. This conflict cannot end soon enough
Cardinal Pizzaballa: “What we know for sure is that a tank, the IDF says by mistake, but we are not sure about this, they hit the Church directly, the Church of the Holy Family, the Latin Church” Images of the only Catholic Church in Gaza before and after today’s attack.
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More!
Something you don’t see every day: a Catholic Mass being celebrated in Canterbury Cathedral—once the very heart of the English Reformation—led for the first time by the Pope’s ambassador to the UK, in honour of the martyred St Thomas Becket.
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Great joy to be in Rome last week for a #Jubilee2025 gathering of 4,000 seminarians from around the world inc. a strong contingent from @RC_Southwark 💪 🙏
rcsouthwark.co.uk
Seminarians from Southwark took part in an international gathering of around 4,000 people in Rome as part of the Jubilee year.
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Don’t agree with the public naming and shaming, but if your faith has no relevance to what you do during the week then you need to ask what good it is doing… Also, very discouraging to those Catholics who are trying to live out their faith.
This was utterly disrespectful to my family, my constituents including the congregation, and the democratic process. My private religion will continue to have zero direct relevance to my work as an MP representing all my constituents without fear or favour. 3/3
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Great joy to be one of them.
Pope Leo is greeted warmly by seminarians in the Vatican today, with many taking the chance to kiss his ring. @Pontifex spoke to thousands of seminarians about the priesthood, during the Jubilee of Seminarians.
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One of the darkest days in our nation's history. Children that can easily survive outside of the womb can be killed without consequence. Absolutely shameful.
Parliament has voted to decriminalise abortion up to birth. It wasn't even close.
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This and a major vote on the assisted suicide bill as well. Big week in Westminster. If you have faith then please pray!
Tomorrow Parliament will vote on whether to allow abortion to birth. These extreme amendments are supposedly intended to stop the prosecution of women who conduct their own late term abortions. But there’s a reason these prosecutions have increased in recent years - it’s
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The King’s message following the death of Pope Francis.
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Incredibly sad news. A blessing that he lived to see Easter, and is now surely enjoying the eternal Easter feast in heaven! May he rest in peace 🙏
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
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Yeah yeah yeaaaaah
450 people will be received into the Catholic Church tonight across the Archdiocese of Southwark. Another 500 in the Archdiocese of Westminster.
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