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Given on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, during a Mass according to the Divine Worship Missal, as part of the London Eucharistic Octave 2021 on Tuesday 14th September 2021 How quickly faith can give way to doubt! Here we are, reading from the book of Numbers, a book which describes theContinue reading “Fr Mark Elliott-Smith: Exaltation of the Holy Cross”

Given at the Requiem Mass as part of the London Eucharistic Octave 2021 on Friday 17th September 2021 A 7th century Irish monk called Saint Lomman wrote a delightful devotional piece called “The Praises of Mary”. This is part of it: “O Mary, when our eyes close in their last sleep, and open to behold yourContinue reading “Fr Christopher Colven: Praying for the Departed”

Photo: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk Given at the Pontifical Mass opening the Eucharistic Octave at Corpus Christi Shrine, Maiden Lane, on Saturday 11th September 2021 My brothers and sisters, Today we take the first step in our celebration of the Eucharist in union with the International Eucharistic Congress taking place in Budapest. I thank Fr Alan Robinson hereContinue reading “Cardinal Nichols: Eucharistic Octave 2021”

Fr John Hemer is a Father of the Mill Hill Missionaries and has worked in several mission territories, including Pakistan, Kenya and Uganda, preaching the Gospel. He is currently a lecturer in Scripture at the Diocesan Seminary, Allen Hall. Fr Hemer preached at the Extraordinary Form Mass of Corpus Christi, which opened our annual Quarant’OreContinue reading “Fr John Hemer: Corpus Christi 2021”

Saint Josemaría Escrivá was born in Barbastro, Spain, on 9 January 1902. He was ordained to the priesthood in Zaragoza, Spain on 28 March 1925. On 2 October 1928, by divine inspiration he founded Opus Dei. On 26 June 1975 he died suddenly in Rome, after a final affectionate glance a picture of our Lady inContinue reading “Contact with Jesus”

This year, the celebrations of our Titular Feast will be vastly scaled back, though we will try to stick to the traditional format as much as we can. There will be a constant stream of Forty Hours on our website at maidenlane.org.uk/live and the Masses will also be streamed on our Facebook page. On ThursdayContinue reading “Corpus Christi 2020 & Quarant’Ore”