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The Community of the Passion held their first gathering of the year at Wistaston Hall in Crewe, over the weekend of 29th to 31st May 2026. Passionist Development Worker Paschal Somers writes: The Community of the Passion is a dispersed community of women and men, finding together a new way of being Passionist, under the auspices of the Passionist Province of Ireland and Britain. Married and single... Read More

The Benedictine monastery of St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth near Guildford is making an unusual appeal for donations of surplus garden plants after one of its new novice monks expressed a desire to continue developing areas of the monastery grounds. The novice, who has a particular love of nature and gardening, finds working outdoors both rewarding and spiritually enriching. Gardening has become ... Read More

Gospel of 31 May 2026 John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has n... Read More

Bees, butterflies, hedgehogs and trees featured in our visit to St Columban's, UK base of the Columban Missionaries, on Friday 15th May 2026. Laudato Si' Animators came together from various parts of England: Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Liverpool and London. We were the first to walk along the yellow path which now meanders through six acres: some were previously used as pasture ... Read More

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Lectionary: 164 A bit of History I start on a slightly contentious note, because I find this feast somewhat superfluous as a distinct celebration. I can understand that it emerged out of devotion, but for the first millennium of the Church a specific, universal feast honouring the Trinity did not exist, there was a deeper and more pertinent understanding that... Read More

A phone call took place between Pope Leo XIV and Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, on Friday afternoon, to discuss the recently published Encyclical Magnifica humanitas." According to a statement by the Holy See Press Office, "the importance of developing artificial intelligence from an ethical perspective and with a human-centred approach was discussed." "The conversation also touched upon q... Read More

Gospel of 30 May 2026 Mark 11:27-33 At that time: Jesus and his disciples came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the Temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, 'By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?' Jesus said to them, 'I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what ... Read More

On Thursday, May 28, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua made his solemn entrance into Jerusalem as Apostolic Delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine and Apostolic Nuncio in Israel, succeeding Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana. According to tradition, the solemn entrance into the Holy Sepulchre marks the official welcome of the newly appointed Apostolic Delegate to the Holy City. At Jaffa Gate, one of the principal... Read More

On Friday evening at 9pm, the medieval village of Celleno in the Tuscia hills of Lazio - 90 minutes from Rome - officially inaugurated a new Marian devotion: the Madonna of the Cherries. The first-ever procession departed from the church of San Donato, winding through the historic borgo and opening the annual Cherry Festival. At the centre of the new devotion stands an altarpiece unlike any other... Read More

An ecumenical partnership between the Bishops' Conference 'God who Speaks' project, St John's Waterloo, and Art + Christianity, has made an open call for artists, graphic designers and illustrators from across the UK to design a cover for any of the 73 books of the Bible. Titled Divine Designs: Between the Covers this art competition and exhibition celebrates creativity and innovation, and seeks t... Read More

A Catholic charity is marking the climax of its rosary peace campaign with schools as the Pope invites the world to join him tomorrow in praying to the Virgin Mary, calling for an end to conflict. Pope Leo XIV will preside over the recitation of the Holy Rosary at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens, Rome, tomorrow (Saturday, 30th May), at 6pm GMT. At a time of increased viole... Read More

Pope Leo XIV has already appealed for peace in the world many times throughout his pontificate. His appeals have always been accompanied with consistent calls for prayer. On Saturday, 30 May at 7pm Pope Leo will preside over the recitation of the Holy Rosary at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens. All people and all Shrines around the world are invited to join him in praying t... Read More

Gospel of 29 May 2026 Mark 11:11-26 With the acclamation of the crowd, Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the Temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve. On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he c... Read More

Towards the end of the General Audience in St Peter's Square yesterday, Pope Leo was filmed stepping down from the platform where he was speaking to assist someone in the audience who had been taken ill with the heat that reached over 34C. That person was Father Diego Semeraro, a priest from Martina Franca, a town in Puglia, southern Italy, who had come to Rome together with his brother Father Fr... Read More