For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Here is our New Testament reading, from 1 Thessalonians: ‘As to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When people say, “There […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 St Peter’s Basilica was originally a humble structure built over the tomb of St Peter, while St Paul’s outside the Walls was built over the place where St Paul was traditionally beheaded. An antiphon for their feast in June reads: ‘How glorious are the apostles of Christ; in […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 From today’s Gospel, from St Luke: ‘Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it’. St Cyril of Alexandria commented: ‘The way in which a man loses his life that he may save it, and how he who imagines that […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 St Gertrude, nun and mystic, died in Germany in 1301 or 1302. Here is part of an account of one of her visions: ‘The Saint, having begun to pray during the first Mass for some persons who had recommended themselves to her prayers, perceived a green vine-branch which […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Here is today’s Gospel, from St Luke: ‘On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” When […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Here is part of our Old Testament reading for today, from the Book of Wisdom: ‘The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Again, from the Book of Wisdom: ‘Love righteousness, you rulers of the earth, think of the Lord with uprightness, and seek him with sincerity of heart … For wisdom is a kindly spirit …’ To seek God with sincerity of heart is a task not just for those […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Today we remember all those who have died in war, especially at the present time. Here is today’s Old Testament reading, from the Book of Wisdom: ‘Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Although the legend of the soldier St Martin dividing his cloak is probably the best-known story about him, he is also well known as a monk and hermit. At the moment of his transition from the life of a soldier, he said: ‘Now let me fight for God. […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 St Leo the Great, a fourth century Pope, is remembered for his defence of the teachings of the Church against error. This is worth remembering in our own day, when there are so many pressures on the Church to change or dilute her teaching. He said: ‘Peace is […]