A great workshop on Synodality this morning with Julian Paparella, our Intellectual Formation Coordinator. We are taking advantage of two quiet days before university lectures start tomorrow, and this fits in very nicely with the opening of the Synod tomorrow.
Read MoreIt was great to be with some of the new men and the formation team (and Marion, Julian's wife) for a pilgrimage to the Catacombs of St Callistus recently. This was also their first visit to Palazzola, where we had lunch on the terrace overlooking Lake Albano.
Read MoreWhat a privilege for the new men and the formation team to meet Pope Francis at the Papal Audience, and to pray with him and with the thousands of pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square. This is us in the queue beforehand!
Read MoreWhat a joy that our six new seminarians, together with some of our formation team, could pray with Pope Francis at the Papal Audience on Wednesday morning.
Read MorePeople from all over Rome gathered at the Venerable English College on Sunday for a Solemn Requiem Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Queen Elizabeth.
Read MoreCongratulations to Fr Andrew Coy, ordained priest today for the diocese of Northampton.
Andrew left the VEC last academic year, as the coronavirus struck. He was ordained deacon while back in the diocese, where he exercised his diaconal ministry.
Read MorePalazzola, the VEC’s house in the Alban Hills south of Rome, has a new website.
The strictures caused by the pandemic have given us the opportunity to look at the ways we publicise and market Palazzola, and one fruit of this work is the website.
Read MoreMgr Philip Whitmore, our beloved Rector for the last eight years, is leaving us.
The Solemnity of St Joseph was the occasion for a post-festal supper announcement.
Read MoreTo mark the end of an extraordinary year, those remaining at the VEC celebrated in style. It was not the usual end-of-year celebration, of course.
Read MoreExactly 850 years after the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket, members of the Venerable English College came together to celebrate his Feast day for the first time since 1985.
Read More2020 will go down in the history books as a year like no other, and indeed this has been the case since staff and students arrived back in Rome in September.
Read MoreOn Wednesday 9th December, Archbishop Arthur Roche joined us for Mass, to admit two of our students to Candidacy for Holy Orders…
Read MoreTe Deum Laudamus! Normally Martyrs’ Day in college is one of great celebration…
Read MoreIt was announced on the evening of Sunday 1 March, that two members of the formation staff at the English College are to reach the end of their five-year terms during the summer.
Read MoreWe were delighted to welcome Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald to the College on Monday 3 February.
Read More“Rejoice to the extent that you share your sufferings with Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice exultantly.”
Read MoreOn Thursday 21 November a group of around 50 priests celebrating 40, 50, or 60 years of priestly ordination (plus one permanent deacon ordained 40 years) joined the college community for a thanksgiving Mass and a festal supper.
Read MoreIn this video, Edward Hauschild of the Diocese of Portsmouth talks about what led to his coming to the English College.
Read MoreSeeing John Henry Newman raised to the altars as a saint was a wonderful experience for all of us at the VEC.
Read MoreThe seminarians have all begun their lectures this week at their respective Pontifical Universities and life begins to settle back into the routine of prayer, study, community time, and relaxation.
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