http://www.holyname.co.uk/news Latest News and updates from the Holy Name Church, Manchester Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:29:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Saturday 11th February   Day of Prayer for the Sick 11am - Mass, Procession to the Shrine, Devotions and Prayers for the Sick http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2012/02/feast-of-our-lady-of-lourdes/ Brothers of St Philip meet before the Solemn Mass on these Sundays for Prayer, Reading and Meditation     Spring Programme based on the Spring Sermons of the Bl John Henry Newman from 1838 Sunday 5th February 9.45am  Rosary in the Newman Chapel 10am  Conference on Sermon Faith and Love http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume4/sermon21.html   Sunday 19th February 9.45am  Rosary in the Newman Chapel 10am  Conference on ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2012/01/brothers-of-st-philip-sunday-programme-for-spring/ Of Your Charity Pray for the Repose of the Soul of Fr Gregory Winterton Priest of the Birmingham Oratory who died on the morning of 18th January   Prayer of the Bl John Henry Newman May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2012/01/fr-gregory-winterton-rip/ The Holy Name of Jesus     In the middle of the Christmas Cycle, between the Nativity and the Epiphany, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. In this we recall the eighth day after his birth when the Lord's parents brought him to be circumcised and given the name announced ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2012/01/the-holy-name-of-jesus/ Old Pictures of the Holy Name As they come to light, old pictures of the church and area will be put up here. If you have any old pictures of Holy Name buildings, worshippers and parishioners, priests and religious, the liturgy and services, guilds, clubs, societies and schools (or anything else!), then please let ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2011/11/old-pictures-of-the-holy-name/   Some of the Community of the Dijon Oratory in the Roman Catacomb where St Philip received the gift of the Holy Spirit   A new family of St Philip has been established at Dijon on 15th July 2011, by a rescript of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The new ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2011/09/new-oratory-at-dijon/ The Spirituality of St Philip Obedience Obedience is the only law imposed by God for the universal ordering of all things and for their conservation (Istruzione per Esercizi, p.85). The cosmos obeys the divine order. Man, to give greater glory to God, is called to obey in total freedom. There is no greater ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2011/08/the-spirituality-of-st-philip-9-obedience/ The Spirituality of St Philip Chastity "Chastity is mentioned by St Paul as being one of the fruits of the Spirit. Chastity ought to be lived as the freedom of the heart, in a total giving of oneself to the Lord; not as a rejection of a human reality that was willed ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2011/08/the-spirituality-of-st-philip-8-chastity/ The Spirituality of St Philip Work This is the most important means of practicing poverty in the Oratory. The members of the Congregation live by their own work, "miliant propriis stipendiis," they live off their own incomes (General Constitutions n. 102). Even work becomes a means of sanctification when it is understood as a ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2011/08/the-spirituality-of-st-philip-7-work/ The Spirituality of St Philip Poverty Jesus warns, "...whoever of you does not renounce all that he has he cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14.33). Detachment from the things of this world and poverty are like the travelling companions of the other virtues. St Philip always showed  great freedom from, and indifference to, ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2011/07/the-spirituality-of-st-philip-6-poverty/