Archive for July, 2010

Preparations for the Beatification of Cardinal Newman
Musical Oratory - Saturday 11th September at 7pm

This is a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament with devotions and readings taken from the writings of Cardinal Newman. These are interspersed with motets and hymns, and short discourses, which will help us to come closer to God with the assistance of […]

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Early Image of St Philip from 1622

This is one of the oldest images of St Philip, painted in the year of his canonisation, 1622. His reputation for sanctity had spread all over the Catholic world, and the Congregation of the Oratory had begun to grow. Here we have a lifesize fresco in the Church of San Carlo Borromeo at Forio, on the Island of Ischia, in the Bay […]

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