1st – 3rd March 2013 Our Confirmation Group this year has 39 young people in it who are preparing to receive the Sacrament on 18th May this year. At the beginning of this month, 16 young people took part in the annual retreat to the...
04.03.2013
St Vincent’s Centre, Whitstable, Kent Our Confirmation Group this year has 39 young people in it who are preparing to receive the Sacrament on 18th May this year. Last weekend, 21 young people took part in the annual retreat to the...
04.02.2013
On Saturday 19th January at St Georges Cathedral, Southwark, Deacon Nicolas von Malaisé was ordained priest by Archbishop Peter Smith. Deacon Stuart Meyers was also ordained priest with him. Father Nicolas started his ministry as an Anglican...
19.01.2013
30th November – 2nd December 2012 26 from our Young Peoples Group travelled to the Diocesan Youth Centre in Whitstable, Kent, for our Advent Retreat. Our workshops throughout the weekend were designed to help us reflect on the Advent Season,...
30.11.2012
Saturday 20th October 2012 Congratulations to Fr John Diver, curate of this parish for 4 years, who was inducted as Parish Priest of St Lawrence of Canterbury, Sidcup, by The Most Reverend Peter Smith, Archbishop of Southwark. Fr John took over...
20.10.2012
Bethlehem Tuesday 16th October: Basilica of the Nativity. It marks the place of Christ’s birth and is also one of the oldest surviving Christian churches. The gospel accounts don’t mention a cave, but less than a century later,...
16.10.2012
Jerusalem Sunday 14th October: Garden of Gethsemane. The eight trees in this part of the garden have been carbon dated, and are some two thousand years old, so Jesus could very well have sat beneath these very trees. The disciples fell...
14.10.2012
Tiberius, Akko, Nazareth Having been to the Holy Land 2 years ago, it was great that we were able to go again so soon. Our tour guide described it as a privilege to visit the Holy Land and that every Christian should visit the “home” of...
10.10.2012
Saturday 21st July 2012 After the spell of dreadful weather, this was the “first day of summer” with blue skies and plenty of sun (I know there was plenty of sun, as having been on site for 11 hours in total, I went home in the evening...
21.07.2012
7th July 2012 in Aylesford Priory Three of our bishops celebrated Mass with the Diocese in celebration of their jubilees: Bishop John Hine ordained priest on 28th October 1962, Archbishop Peter Smith ordained priest on 15th July 1972, and...
07.07.2012