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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
- St. Augustine of Canterbury
St. Augustine of Canterbury Feast date: May 27 An Italian Benedictine monk who became the “Apostle of the English,” Saint Augustine of Canterbury is honored by the Catholic Church on May 27. Under the direction of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, Augustine founded the famous See of Canterbury and preached the Catholic faith to the country's […]
- May. 27 Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop; Minor Rogation Day, Opt. Mem.
The Church offers the Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 605), who was born in Rome and died in Canterbury, England, in 604. When Pope Gregory I heard that the pagans of Britain were disposed to accept the Catholic Faith, he sent the prior of St. Andrew, Augustine, and forty of his Benedictine brethren to England. Despite the great difficulties involved in the task assigned to […]