News and messages archive for 2004
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - December 2004
Posted on December 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Second Week of Advent - Sunday 5th December 2004 This coming Wednesday will be the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The circumstances of its declaration were not auspicious, what with the impending collapse…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - November 2004
Posted on November 1st 2004 in
Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 7th November 2004 Last week Islington Council, the home of lost causes, demanded that a new Church of England school, for which it did not pay, must abandon its saint's name, St…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - October 2004
Posted on October 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 3rd October 2004 Last week our breakfast group, after reading the first part of the Pope's document, Rich in Mercy (Dives in Misericordia), entered into a lively discussion as to the relationship between…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - September 2004
Posted on September 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 5th September 2004 Just before going on holiday I was given an incredible book entitled simply Fr Joe: the man who saved my soul. The book charts an unlikely long-standing friendship between a…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - August 2004
Posted on August 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 29th August 2004 I am not sure whether it is a sign of being over institutionalised, but I cannot help taking September to be the beginning of the year. This is perhaps the…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - July 2004
Posted on July 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 4th July 2004 The most memorable images for me this last week were the incredible pictures of a twelve-week-old foetus in his mother's womb that were published in the papers. They will far…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - June 2004
Posted on June 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Twelfth Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 20th June 2004 Each week the lunchtime study group has been making its way through the sacraments of the Church. This week was the turn of 'Reconciliation'. So far each booklet has provided…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - May 2004
Posted on May 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Fourth Week of Easter - Sunday 2nd May 2004 Throughout my time in Oxford University there used to be various mutterings about the emphasis placed on hospitality. Whether these criticisms were out of jealousy or more intellectual reasons I do…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - April 2004
Posted on April 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Holy Week - Sunday 4th April 2004 Many Catholics attending Mass will, through watching Mel Gibson's film, listen to the Passion being read this Sunday with a new perspective. Some, I know, have been overawed by the film, both spiritually…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - March 2004
Posted on March 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
Second Week of Lent - Sunday 7th March 2004 It is not long to go before Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion' will be released in British cinemas. Most of his previous films feature a fair amount of violence. The Passion…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - February 2004
Posted on February 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
4th Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 1st February 2004 Two weeks ago I was given a gentle reminder by the Prior of Downside Abbey as to the date of publication for the Centenary lecture which he had delivered last…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - January 2004
Posted on January 1st 2004 in Weekly messages
3rd Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 25th January 2004 The famous English philosopher Bertrand Russell is the father figure of a whole school of English university philosophers who worked in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. His Olympian stature and…
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