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: ‘By your endurance you will gain your lives’. St Gregory the Great commented: ‘If the possession of the soul lies in the virtue of patience, it is because patience is the root and protector of all virtues. It is through patience that we possess our […]

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 today’s Gospel: ‘And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, “As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not […]

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: ‘He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury; and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. And he said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; for they […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 St John records: ‘Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Although very little is known about this fourth century saint, she remains an important figure for both Christian East and West. The Greek Orthodox monastery which bears her name is located on Mount Sinai, in the place which by tradition God appeared to Moses, revealing His Divine Name. […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 St Andrew Dung-Lac was a convert to Christianity who was later ordained a Catholic priest. Today’s feast commemorates both him and all the Vietnamese martyrs from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. They were canonised by Pope John Paul II, who affirmed the ‘vitality and grandeur of the […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 Today’s Gospel follows on immediately on from the account of Our Lord’s entry into Jerusalem: ‘And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it, saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes. For […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 The Church of St Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome is said to have been built over home of this Roman saint. She was martyred following the martyrdom of her husband, Valerian, and died by being struck on the neck with a sword. In 1599, her body was found […]

For our latest news, please see: https://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?A-new-era-for-Aston-Hall-Stone-590 This feast commemorates the entry of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Temple at Jerusalem, accompanied by her parents, Anne and Joachim. The account appears in the Protevangelium of James, and not in the Gospels, but is part of sacred tradition in East and West. May we, like […]

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: ‘As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging; and hearing a multitude going by, he inquired what this meant. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” And he cried, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy […]