Since January, it has been an absolute privilege to be here in the 3 Churches, to be able to call this my home, and to be able to walk alongside you as I enter the last stages of preparation for priesthood. As I make the last minute preparations for ordination, there still remains an important…

Download our 3 churches newsletter for the Ascension of the Lord, Sunday 28 May 2017 below. 3 churches newsletter – 28 May 2017 (21/17)

My seminary in Rome, the Beda College, is named after St Bede. But who was he? St Bede was born in about 673 near Newcastle, and was sent to be educated at the monastery of Monkwearmouth near present day Sunderland. Later he was transferred to its sister community in close-by Jarrow. There in about 701…

Download our 3 churches newsletter for Sunday 21 May 2017, the sixth Sunday of Easter (Year A) below. 3 churches newsletter, 21 May 2017 (20/17)

For the last few years a small group has worked with me in promoting Evangelization in its broadest sense in our 3 Churches. This grew out of a previous period of talks and evenings looking at the Church’s thinking on this during the last decades. The team called itself the Evangelization Group but for many…