Proper football in a proper competition with no VAR and no offsides for having your toe ahead of the defender.

Wishing you a very happy 65th birthday, Meggo! 🥳

The Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Timothy Menezes and Canon Richard Walker as new Auxiliary Bishops to serve the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
Read More: cbcew.org.uk/new-auxiliarie…

Did you know the Vatican has an astronomer? Br. Guy Consolmagno has a Masters and Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences, and lectured at Harvard and MIT. Here is his response when I asked him how a man of science could also be a man of God:

Today on the RC Birmingham #Vocations Prayer Calendar, we pray for Michael Flower Michael Flower, one of our men in formation for the diaconate.

Take it all in.

We're getting our first views of the 2024 total solar #eclipse as its shadow makes landfall in Mazatlán, Mexico.

God gave me a great gift for my birthday today
After my last mass, I drove over to my brothers house to sit with him. He is recovering from a stroke.
I got an emergency call and I was 35 miles away but God protected me and help me get to the hospital in time. I was able to give

On the anniversary of his Ordination, please pray for:

Mgr. Bruce Harbert (1979)

Ad multos annos!

Friends, many of you might be familiar with the famous Shroud of Turin, a revered relic of the Crucifixion. I briefly discuss this extraordinary and mysterious shroud—and what it says to our hyper-skeptical age—in my latest article: bit.ly/4afD6MV

Passion Sunday in the Seminary. Is this not beautiful? I love it.

Hope you had a wonderful time as well. Happy Passion Sunday - enjoy this video.

Today on the RC Birmingham #Vocations Prayer Calendar, we pray for Michael Flower Michael Flower, one of our men in formation for the diaconate.

Pray for the Christians of Nigeria. This is unspeakable.

Today on the RC Birmingham #Vocations Prayer Calendar, we pray for vocations to the priesthood.

Bilkul Football WBA, LLC – a company ultimately owned by Florida-based entrepreneur Shilen Patel and his father Dr Kiran C. Patel – has acquired an 87.8% shareholding in West Bromwich Albion Group Limited, the parent company of West Bromwich Albion Football Club.

Please keep in your prayers the 15 church-goers killed during Sunday Mass yesterday in Burkina Faso. How many more people have to die before the West sits up and takes notice of the ever-worsening cycle of persecution unfolding in that part of West Africa? tinyurl.com/muwpsxr3

RIP Fred Elliott ❤️

Ways Brits finish a tea break:

1. “Anyway, better get back to it”
2. “No rest for the wicked”
3. “Right, I shall crack on”
4. “Back to the grind”
5. “Suppose I better do some work”
6. “Here we go again”
7. “This work won’t do itself”
8. “Onwards and upwards”

On the anniversary of his Ordinations, please pray for:

Bishop Philip Pargeter (Ordained priest 1959, bishop 1990)

Ad multos annos!