Vocations Stories
Msgr. Kevin Hale, Vicar General for the diocese of Brentwood share his thoughts on priesthood and gives us a glimpse of his own journey to holy orders.
Fr. Graham Smith, Parish Priest of the Catholic parishes of Sacred Heart in Southend and St. John Fisher in Prittlewell, Vocations and promoter for the cause of the canonisation of Fr. Thomas Byles shares his vocation story .
The Rev. Canon John Harvey, Parish Priest of St. Edmunds Catholic Church in Loughton shares his vocation story .
Fr. Dan Mason, Parish priest of The Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Billericay Essex and National Chaplain to the travelling community shares his journey to the priesthood
Paschal Uche, a 5th year student at Scott seminary in Birmingham for the diocese of Brentwood shares his vocation story.
Fr. Tom Jordan, parish priest of St. Edward the Confessor in Romford, shares his vocation story.
Fr. Maurice Gordon, St Alban in Elm Park
Canon Brian O’Shea BA(Hons), MA(Dist), St Thomas of Canterbury in Grays
Gary Dench explains how he felt called to be a priest
Fr. Philip Denton in the centenary year of the diocese shares his unique story of how he became a priest.
Michael Barwick, a seminarian for the diocese of Brentwood, shares his love for Our Lady and how she directed him towards giving himself to train as a priest.
Rev Stephen Morrison O Praem of the Norbertine community in Chelmsford, Essex shares his vocations story.
Jonathan Burden - Message for Good Shepherd Sunday
A Day in the Life of a Seminarian
Saint of the Day
- Blessed Phillip Rinaldi
Feast date: Dec 05 Bl. Phillip Rinaldi was born on May 28, 1856 in Piedmont, Italy. He met Don Bosco when he was just five years old, and intuitively recognized that he was a man with a great mission.At the age of 22, he entered the Salesian Order at the end of a tremendous vocational struggle, and even before making his vows he was made assistant novice master and was placed in […]
- Dec. 5 Friday of the First Week of Advent, Weekday
Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Sabbas (439-532), an anchorite who dedicated his life to prayer and manual labor. He is pictured as an abbot with an apple, as he was once tempted to eat an apple outside of the prescribed mealtime, whereupon he vowed never to eat apples again. In Jerusalem he built a famous laura (as oriental monasteries are called), which bears his name. When the […]