When someone’s discernment journey leads to a vocation to the consecrated life, there are mixed emotions: the joy is often tempered by sadness as the person leaves us and goes off to study for the priesthood or to join a religious order. Kathy Shaw who organises...
Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV on the occasion of the 63rd World Day of Prayer for Vocations – Good Shepherd Sunday, 26 April 2026… Message of Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the 63rd World Day of Prayer for Vocations Join Bishop Marcus in...
On the morning of the third annual diocesan Lenten Pilgrimage for Vocations ‘In Fr Brown’s Footsteps’, the weather forecast was for ‘all four seasons in a single day’. How accurate that usually inexact science of meteorology proved to be!...
Saturday 28 June was a day of many blessings, as Leeds Cathedral was filled with family, friends, clergy, religious and lay faithful to welcome Fr Philip Thornley as our latest man to be ordained by Bishop Marcus into the Sacred Priesthood for the Diocese of Leeds! Fr...
In this Holy Year, 23 and 24 June are designated as the Jubilee of Seminarians. Please pray for our Diocese of Leeds Seminarians: Stephen O’Hara currently studying at St Mary’s, Oscott – and Deacon Philip Thornley who has just left the Pontifical...
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