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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

  • Blessed Anton Martin Slomshek

    Blessed Anton Martin Slomshek Feast date: Sep 24 Anton Martin Slomshek who was born November 26, 1800 at Ponikva, Slovenia is the first Slovenian to be beatified.  Slomshek is known as a great educator, largely responsible for the nearly 100% literacy rate among Slovenians, a remarkable turn around from the very poor state of the nation's educational […]

  • Sep. 24 Tuesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

    The Memorial of Our Lady of Walsingham was reinstated to the liturgical calendar in England in 2000. The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is entrusted to Mary under this title. This feast day celebrates the shrine in Norfolk, England, which was a popular medieval pilgrimage site. In 1061, the lady of the manor of Walsingham, Richeldis de Faverches, was instructed by a vision of […]