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

Saturday Vigil Mass: 6pm & 8:30pm with the Neocatechumenal communities.

Sunday Mass: 9am, 11am, 6pm.

Weekday Mass: 12:30pm & 6pm.

Saturdays & Bank Holidays: 10am.

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

Some years ago, a 43 year old German policeman was getting desperate that he had not yet met the right woman, so he placed an advertisement in the local newspapers. Here is the advert:

“Middle-ranking civil servant, single, Catholic, 43 years old, immaculate past, from the country, is looking for a good Catholic, pure girl, who can cook well, tackle all household chores, with a talent for sewing and homemaking, with a view to marriage as soon as possible. Fortune desirable, but not a precondition.”

While he was still an Anglican priest, John Henry Newman was looking for signs of true holiness in the Roman Catholic Church here in England. This is what he wrote at the time:

“If they want to convert England, let them go barefoot into our manufacturing towns, let them preach to the people like Saint Francis Xavier and let them be pelted and trampled on, and then I will admit that they do what we cannot..."

The anniversary of the death of John Henry Newman falls on Wednesday of this week.  He died in Birmingham on the 11th August 189. He was 89.