Shoes for Sunday best...

If you go to Mass on weekdays, and not just Sunday, it can be easier to abandon the practice of wearing our 'Sunday best'. If you we...

Mass for the late Fr Thwaites, at the London Oratory on 2nd February 2013

  Fr Hugh Thwaites (21 July 1917 –  21 August 2012) Requiescat in Pace You are invited to attend a Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form, to be...

Are you a Catholic who uses social networking sites or blogs? Then this is for you…

Find it, underneath the text.  It’s your invitation to the Guild Meeting. Every Catholic who blogs and/or uses the new media is very welcome...

I’ve had the loveliest Christmas…

I felt called to stay in London for Christmas and I’ve been enjoying the festivities with my housemates who are Indian and Latin American ...

For the love of dogs…

‘Cherie, let everyone on the tube see how beautiful you are!’ cooed the man before getting down on his knees and rubbing the shiny brown m...

St Anthony Exhibition…

1:01 minutes into the video, the statue is quite like that in The London Oratory.

Archbishop Nichols addresses an enormous congregation at the London Oratory Mass of Thanksgiving for the papal visit

After work, I dashed over to the London Oratory for the Mass of thanksgiving for the papal visit. I was just in time for Archbishop Nichols’...

Fr. Rupert McHardy: ‘Lent is about taking responsibility for our own sins’

London is having one of her maddeningly muggy and heretically humid days. The smug clouds hold rain that will bathe London’s streets, but in...