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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 22, 20215 min read
Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam
Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 20, 20216 min read
Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure
Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 17, 20213 min read
July 18 Birmingham City
Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20213 min read
June 19 Acton - Power Corrupts, Absolute Power corrupts absolutely
Today in 1902 Lord Acton died. John Acton was the English Catholic historian, died in Bavaria, Germany. Now famous for his saying...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20214 min read
June 16 John Henry Newman and Lead Kindly Light
In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...
Pearl of Great Price
May 28, 20214 min read
May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy
One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 23, 20216 min read
Apr 24 Baptism of St Augustine
Today we remember how Augustine of Hippo was baptised by Ambrose in Milan as a 33 year old man - a 'late convert'. His writings and his...
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