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Gospel of 7 October 2026 Luke 1:26-38 At that time: The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, 'Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!' But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this ... Read More

Forty years ago, on October 27, 1986, Pope St John Paul II took part in the historic World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, central Italy. For the first time in history, representatives of all world religions were invited by the Pope to pray together for peace. Among those inspired by that meeting was the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Catholic lay organisation, which since then has continued to pr... Read More

Catholic actor Kenneth Michael, will be directing a new play in the Lambeth Fringe Festival this weekend. 'Painting with Water' by Richard Banks, follows the story of Harold Graves, a dying retired literature professor, and his unexpected friendship with a young woman named Willow. Performances are at the Bread and Roses Theatre, 68 Clapham Manor Street, London SW4 6DZ Clapham, on Saturday 10 Oct... Read More

Rabbi GIlad Kariv, a legal scholar, member of the Knesset and former CEO of Reform Judaism in Israel wrote on Facebook yesterday: Tonight, I met with Father Constantine, one of the leaders of the Greek Orthodox community in Jaffa. With tears in his eyes and a voice choked with emotion, he described to me the violence he experienced at the hands of police officers on Jaffa's main street, and th... Read More

A few years ago I was helping on a residential weekend for teenagers at Worth Abbey when an old friend arrived to give the Saturday evening talk. He looked around the room and asked me how it was all going. The only answer I could find was, "It works. It just works." He laughed, because he knew exactly what I meant. We had both been in youth ministry a long time, and we had both spent most of it w... Read More

The Iona Institute reports: A new movie about Tuam Children's Home is just out. One of the producers is Liam Neeson and is called 'The Lost Children of Tuam'. It deals with Catherine Corless's quest to find out what happened to the children who spent time in the home, and in particular, how many died, why, and where they are buried. The movie places nearly all the blame on the Bon Secours Sisters ... Read More

Daoud Nassar, from the long-established Christian Palestinian farming family at the Tent of Nations, near Bethlehem, urged the Church to stand up for Palestinians when he spoke at St John's Anglican Church, in Waterloo, London, last Thursday. He said this was 'very important' in the Palestinians' imperilled situation in which it was easy to feel lonely and forgotten. The presence and solidarity of... Read More

Gospel of 6 October 2026 Luke 10:25-37 At that time: Behold, a lawyer stood up to put Jesus to the test, saying, 'Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' He said to him, 'What is written in the Law? How do you read it?' And he answered, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbour a... Read More

Members of Pax Christi England and Wales, from Liverpool and further afield, joined the Time to Act, 'Walk of Witness' in Liverpool on Sunday, 27th September as the Labour Party Conference began in the city. Almost 200 people from churches and charities gathered to call on the UK Government to take meaningful action towards a just peace for all those who call the Holy Land home. Along with other m... Read More

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of Cameroon's Anglophone Conflict. The international community will shrug with indifference. The continuing suffering of more than six million Africans who cherish the right to speak English, teach an English curriculum and practice English common law counts for little in our age of post-morality politics. Yet, three geopolitical reasons explain wh... Read More

Fr David Neuhaus SJ, an Israeli Jesuit priest, born in South Africa to a Jewish family writes: Every day Palestinians mourn their dead especially in Gaza. The small Christian community is no exception to this devastating reality. Since the so-called ceasefire on October 10, 2025, at least 1, 454 Gazans have been killed and 5090 have been wounded. Just after midnight, early on Saturday morning, Oct... Read More

Image, an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, in partnership with Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), will publish the English edition of The Private Diary of Pope Francis by Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on 24 November 2026 in North America and in all formats. The Private Diary of Pope Francis is an extraordinary glimpse i... Read More

On Sunday morning, 4 October, around 30 people shared in a two hour 'Pilgrimage for the Planet' around eight Oxford landmarks to highlight the climate and nature emergency. Jointly organised by the Oxford branches of the Laudato Si Movement and Christian Climate Action, the pilgrimage began at Blackfriar's Priory in St Giles and passed through the centre of Oxford visiting sites, including Christc... Read More

David Palmer 13 August 1933- 23rd August 2026. Two days before the death of Dolly Parton, another less well known, musical legend passed away. Composer David Palmer, who died on 23 August just ten days after his 93rd birthday, was legendary among the Catholics in the Croydon area and had a huge impact on the children he taught in Purley for thirty years. His oratorio Holy Boy received its premier ... Read More