There was a wonderful turnout for Eucharistic Adoration last Sunday, with many people present throughout the afternoon and about 30 in church for Benediction. Thank you to everyone for coming and we look forward to seeing you, and others, next Sunday. Remember, you don't have to put your name down on the list, simply come for as long a time as you wish.

Pope Benedict's new encyclical, Spe Salvi (which means 'in hope we were saved') has just been published. It follows on from his first letter to the Church, Deus Caritas Est , which dealt with love, by considering the theological virtue of hope. Care to take a bet that the next one might be about faith? Christopher Howse writes :

A colleague, staring at the Pope's latest encyclical, remarked, "There's no news here. It's all about God." He was right, after a fashion, for the document, the second encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI since his election two and a half years ago, is about hope and salvation. Its title, Spe Salvi, is from a phrase in St Paul's Epistle to the Romans, "In hope we were saved."

Please note there will be no 8am Mass tomorrow, Tuesday 27 November. Sorry for the short notice.

For your reading pleasure, four new links added to our blog roll.

For the world's more full of wonder than you can understand . And there's a new marvel every day.

Not quite what Yeats wrote, but true nonetheless.

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