Today we continued our retreat at Belmont with the Offices and High Mass, an excellent lunch in the refrectory and then went off in the dri...

Today was our first full day at Belmont, and given over to our Retreat. We all turned up for Matins at 6.30 this morning and followed the m...

Earlier today I travelled from Oxford over to the Benedictine abbey at Belmont on the western edge of Hereford for what is planned as a com...

Yesterday was the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria Virgin and Martyr. In The Golden Legend , initially compiled circa 1260 by Jaco...

The Epiphany Fernando Gallego c. 1480-90 National Museum of Catalunya Image: Wikipedia Today is the Feast of the Epiphany,...

Last night I went to a talk at the Oxford Oratory given by Fr Jerome Bertram to the members of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, who h...

Last night Fr Jerome entertained the Brothers of the Oratory with a talk based upon a wonderful mixture of archaeological finds, Biblical ...

Fr Jerome Bertram C.O. of the Oxford Oratory is, in addition to his very considerable skills as a priest and preacher, a leading authorit...

In his address at Mass yesterday evening at the Oxford Oratory Fr Jerome spoke about the passage in Isaiah 7:14 which speaks of a young woma...

No, this is not more about the crisis in the Eurozone, or global warming, or global overpopulation, or the latest pandemic 'flu, nor is ...

Here are a few thoughts, not necessarily all connected, about Remembrance and reflections on war in the last century. I am not a pacifist, ...