The Group Leaders of the Southwark Life Ascending will meet in the Prayer Room of  St Mary’s, West Croydon on Thursday 2 March 2017.  The Mass is at 10am and we then start with a hot drink and begin at 11am.  We will be planning a Spring event, discuss the Aylesford retreat and

The blessing of the throat takes place on the Feast of St Blaise, 3 February.  It is an appropriate feast day for this time of the year, when so many suffer from sore throats and snuffles.  As the priest blesses the throat with two crossed candles, he says “May God at the interc

the Pope said. “We live in a time when the elderly do not count. It’s awful to say, but they are discarded. Because they are a nuisance to us. The elderly are those who carry history, that carry doctrine, that carry the faith and give it to us as an inheritance. They are like a

Sometimes it is good to share the day to day concerns we all have whether it is health, family worries and personal finance.  The recent budget has highlighted something we all have to manage and think about, our pension pot and the future Jane Vass, head of policy at Age UK, said peo