Where are the "refugee camps" in your parish?
What are you (and me) doing to help? https://billditewig.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/the-popes-challenge-where-would-you-stop/
View ArticleThe Little way of Fasting – by Fr. Aidan Kieran
The season of Lent is almost upon us, it begins tomorrow on Ash Wednesday. During Lent, we are asked to take on three traditional Christian disciplines: Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving. Today I want to...
View ArticleTwo ways of thinking.
"There are two ways of thinking and of having faith: we can fear to lose the saved and we can want to save the lost. Even today it can happen that we stand at the crossroads of these two ways of...
View ArticleWhy pray?
Once a man was asked "what do you gain by regularly praying to God?" The man replied, "Nothing.... but let me tell you what I lost: Anger, ego, greed. depression, insecurity and fear of death....
View ArticleJihadi Brides
Why is the media making such a fuss over three people who of their own free-will left the UK to go to another country? One has to feel sorry for their families but why is it being portrayed as our...
View ArticleBrilliant New Diet - well sort of!
I have just come across this brilliant new diet which I am going to embark on from the 27 April until the 1st May. The brilliant part is that you can eat absolutely any type of food, steak, caviar,...
View ArticleCaveat Emptor
It will soon be the next financial year and with it will come the new found "Pension Freedoms". No doubt the press will soon be full of stories of people who were duped and miss-sold something. With...
View ArticleWhy the British Public has given up on Politics
Several thousand young people in the north of England are groomed and sexually abused, hundreds if not thousands of people are being butchered by IS and other groups in the Middle East and Africa, Tony...
View ArticleAnd so it spreads
It now seems that the child abuse scandal and cover up story is spreading from city to city. Sheffield appears to be the latest place where these horrors have been perpetrated.Of course in London the...
View ArticleWhen does Lent End?
There are two days for the end of Lent. What most people mean by "When does Lent end?" is "When does the Lenten fast end?" The answer to that question is Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday),...
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Helena and The Paris Marathon
On Sunday our daughter Hélèna and her friend Marie ran the Paris Marathon - the first long distance run (apart from training) for both girls. They had a support team of six, including Hélèna's husband...
View ArticleWho to Vote for?
Deacon Nick Donnelly of Protect the Pope offers some advice on who Catholics can vote for in the upcoming general election in a recent article which has been banned by a local paper because of its...
View ArticleHow did your MP vote?
If you want to find out how your MP voted in the last parliament then click here. This site details how all the votes in both the Commons and the Lords went.If you are particularly interested in...
View ArticleWhy is Alex Salmond being kept under wraps?
If in the forthcoming election the SNP hold the balance of power I wonder what the role of their leader Nicola Sturgeon will be? She is not standing as a candidate - is that when they roll out our old...
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Living Below the Line - Living on £1 per day for five days!
Taken from my Facebook page:First day of "Living Below the Line" max spending on food is £1. Remember that 1.2 billion people live on the equivalent of this every day of their lives. Julia and i are...
View ArticleLiving below the line
Day 3 of Living Below the Line just starting. So far so good. Whilst doing this as an exercise is rather fun for many it is the reality of their everyday lives. For me the risk is that I put in treats...
View ArticleLiving below the line - last day!
Last day of living below the line. I can look forward to a fry-up for breakfast tomorrow. But for 1.2 billion people it will be the same food tomorrow as it was yesterday and the the day before, etc...
View ArticleIt's over!
Well the five days of living on a £1 per day are over. I must admit that the bacon sarnie for breakfast this morning was really great. If nothing else the past five days has taught me how lucky I am. i...
View ArticleCare for the dying
Most of the daily papers are carrying articles on the inadequacies of care of the dying within the NHS - click here.We need a proper debate on what medical research is necessary/feasible and desirable....
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