Joomla! site syndication http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:49:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla Joomla! site syndication http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57 Brother Bruno Rowswell OFM Cap died on the 10th August peacefully at the Friary. The funeral was held on Thursady 19th August 2010 Professed 18th May 1948 Ordained 18th July 1954 The full obituary text will be available to view soon. News - Latest Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:59:20 +0100 http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56 (Click on the image to view the full poster) News - Latest Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:20:48 +0100 http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55 THE HIDDEN CHRISTIAN POOR IN THE FIRST CITY OF CHRISTENDOM The greatest providence to humanity is surely that Almighty God should chose to become man. The place of this wonder of wonders was not any of the cities of classical antiquity but five and a half miles south of Jerusalem, at the little town of Bethlehem. Here David was anointed king by the prophet Samuel (I Samuel 16) and here the Son of God was born of David’s line. The infant Christ was proclaimed by a chorus of angels over the Bethlehem hills to simple shepherds, who were the first to come and worship. This first place of Christian worship is at the very centre of Bethlehem, a crude stable cut into the recesses of the local rocky terrain, but now enclosed in the great Byzantine Church of the Nativity. In the year 326 the first Christian Emperor, Constantine, began the building of this the oldest church in Christendom, his mother, the Empress St. Helena, continued the work. During the Samaritan revolt in 529 the church was largely destroyed but was to be rebuilt on Constantine’s foundations by the Emperor Justinian, since when it has been a place of continuous Christian worship. Another possible disaster was narrowly averted at the time of the Persian conquest in 614, when Persian soldiers came to sack the church, but seeing a glorious mosaic of the magi dressed in Persian court dress convinced them that the church should be spared. Thus today at the heart of Bethlehem is the most historic monument to Christianity in the world. News - Bethlehem Bulletin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:33:07 +0100 http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54 Brother Mark Elvins is currently visiting Bethlehem. Here is his first report from the Holy Land. - Greetings from the Holy Land After waiting two days at Heathrow Airport , with two cancellations, I flew out to Tel Aviv on BA flight 163 at 10.30 p.m. After a sleepless night I landed at Tel Aviv at about 6.00 a.m. on the Sunday of the Baptism of Our Lord (the flight had been delayed for half an hour at Heathrow with de-icing). I sleep-walked off the aircraft and almost missed the cab driver who had come to meet me. After half an hour's drive I arrived at Bethlehem. News - Bethlehem Bulletin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:18:59 +0100 http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53 Brother Terry Moore OFM Cap Born 30th May 1921 Professed 8th September 1940 Ordained 15th May 1947 Died 27th January 2010 Click HERE (http://www.uk.ofmcap.pl/images/articles/Br%20Terry%20Obituary.pdf) to view the full obituary text. The funeral will be held on Friday 5th February at 12 noon at Our Lady of the Angels, Erith. News - Latest Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:53:06 +0100