October 2023

This autumn we have two young men joining the Diocese of Plymouth Ministry Experience Scheme (MES). MES is a year out to live and serve in a local community, experience ministry in a parish and discover the life that God is calling them to. They will spend the year from September to June working in parish ministry, […]

I wanted to say a few words about my experience discerning my vocation.  I grew up in a Catholic family in the most southerly part of our country, the Lizard peninsula (first Coverack, then Ruan Minor).  In my teens things changed, and I went off to university in Scotland, and then spent most of my life there

At the time of writing, it is my twelfth day at Allen Hall. For those of us (of various dioceses) who have come here off the back of our propaedeutic year in Valladolid, I think it was always going to feel like a wrench, saying goodbye to our beautiful Spanish home and returning to the

A moment to reminisce on how far we have come. A day to look to the future and where we might go. A year or reflection on what it means to grow and a lifetime… The decision to relaunch a series of ‘Reflection Days’ was taken whilst drinking coffee (and I promise nothing stronger!) whilst