8 Ogle Street, London, W1W 6HS  Tel.: 020 7636 2883

Mass on Sundays: 6pm Vigil, 9am, 11am, 6pm. Refreshments are served in the Crypt after the 11am mass.

Mass on Mondays to Fridays: 12:30pm & 6pm.

Mass on Saturdays & Bank Holidays: 10am.

Confessions: On Call, Sat. 10:30-11am & 5:30-6pm.

A truly happy person is one whose capacity to love is genuinely fulfilled. Marriage is not the only context in which this can take place.

Friendship, and the giving of self to others, can also be a fulfilling expression of love.

Some of us decide not to marry, not because we scorn or reject it, but because we feel a definite call to remain celibate, and to express our love through the priesthood or the religious life.

There are also men and women in science, in politics, and in other kinds of service, who give themselves totally to their calling, and find true happiness there.

Dorothy Day was 83 when she died in New York in 1980. In her youth she had dropped out of her family, college, church and marriage. In fact, she had dropped out of almost everything.

She had aborted one child and borne another out of wedlock. BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD she could have become the biggest drop-out, or the biggest bag lady in America.

But the Grace of God was bigger! What God raised from the ashes of her life was amazing. The Church in America has put forward her cause for Canonisation! We can remember her this week on 1st May, the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker for whom Dorothy Day had a great devotion.

If you have any doubts about God's power to change people's lives - including your own - read her lifestory!

The feast of Saint George is not usually much of a feast! It falls on Wednesday of this week, 23rd April 2008.

Saint George does not have the appeal of Saint Patrick, or Saint David, not to mention Saint Andrew!

But his feast was a Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics in England right up to the 18th century.

Many years ago I went to Mass on Saint George's Day, and heard a memorable homily; so memorable that I can repeat it, over 30 years later, word for word! The preacher said:

Today is the feast of Saint George.
We know very little about Saint George.
What we do know is not certain.
What is certain is that we cannot find out anything else.

Do you recognise that young priest? He was ordained in 1971, when he was 31 years old. Although God gave him an early call, he could only manage a late answer!

This Sunday is a day of special prayer for all those who may be called by God – early or late – to a religious vocation.

If God calls, he will not provide a “job description”, and he will not be too interested in your CV!

There are people among us here in Ogle Street needing our help and encouragement as they try to discern God’s plan for their life. Perhaps you are one of them?