Oremus - The Cathedral Magazine

Oremus - February Edition

Cover – Detail from The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1501) by Hans Holbein, the Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum of Art. This image was released into the public domain though the Yorck Project and Wikimedia. Photos on pp 6, 8 & 9: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.
Cathedral Life – Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults at Westminster Cathedral; Cathedral History: The death of Cardinal Vaughan; Hidden Treasures: The Cardinal Howard Plate; Cathedral History – A photographic record: Archbishop Myers Opens an exhibition on plate and vestments, 6 July 1951; Cathedral Events: Sr Bridget’s leaving; Boilers & Bricks; and major works being carried out in the Chapel of St George & the English Martyrs.
Features – Archbishop Edward Myers; Spiritual Reflections from the Archbishops: Reflecting on the death of King George VI; Faith Matters: Confidently Catholic; The Franciscan Sanctuaries of Rieti Valley; The English in Rome: Byron, Shelley and Keats; February Saints: Blaise and Bernadette; Epiphany at the Charterhouse: The Retirement of Dr James Thomson.
Regulars – Editorial; The Friends of Westminster Cathedral: Insights into the Defence of the Realm; Book Reviews: Pushkin the Pontifical Puss and A Pilgrim in Spain; News in Brief; From the Registers; Diary; Recipe: French Pancakes.

Oremus - January Edition

Cover – Joan of Arc – William Christian Symons’ preparatory painting for the mosaic he designed (1910) – made by mosaicists George Bridge and Gertrude Martin. We now see it in the Cathedral’s North Transept. Photo © Blandine Tugendhat.
Cathedral Life – 30 years of full diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Holy See; Our Holy Land Pilgrimage; Three choral premières in one week; Monthly Album: Nativity play put on by our Parish children, St Cecilia, patroness of the Church’s music, Tea for Fr Tim, Larry the Donkey returns, Christmas Tree lights up the Piazza, Choristers give their annual Friends’ Recital, New Canons of the Cathedral Chapter ; A century of Cathedral organs; The Cathedral Wiseman plate; Cathedral History – A photographic record: Laying the Foundation Stone on 29 June 1895.
Features – Preparing for The Year of Faith; Cardinal Weld and Cardinal Acton in Rome; Friends of the Holy Land launch an appeal in Westminster Cathedral; The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham one year on;  Joan of Arc: the 15th Century Warrior Saint who heard the voice of God; Archbishops’ Spiritual Writings: “I am the handmaid of the Lord” said Mary;  Discovering our true selves.
Regulars – Editorial from Fr Gerard Skinner; Book Review: William Lockhart – First Fruits of the Oxford Movement; The Friends of Westminster Cathedral: Brave New Year for the Friends?; News in Brief; Recipe: Clafoutis; Oremus Crossword;  From the Registers; Diary.

Oremus - December Edition

Cover – The Holy Family – Mosaic in St Joseph’s Chapel, Westminster Cathedral.
Cathedral Life – Changes in the household; Thank You Father Tim! Tomás Luis de Victoria in magnificent new recording by Westminster Cathedral Choir;  Monthly Album: Friends of Cathedral Music donate £18,000, Making Holes, First Diocesan pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Police Guild remembers, Farewell to a loved and trusted sister, World Mission Sunday, National Chaplaincies celebrate cultural diversity, Cathedral Confirmations, Canon Tuckwell invested in the Constantinian order, All Souls Day broadcast; Remembering men of Irish regiments The Cathedral Choir on Tour – Choristers in the US; The first Cathedral parish.
Features – Cardinal Hume: What does Christmas mean to you? Two generations in conversation – Nicolas Kynaston talks to Martin Baker, Master of Music; For this I was born and for this I came into the world Cardinal Hume Centre – 25 years of caring for the young; St Thomas Becket, probably England’s best loved saint; Objects of Reflection (11) – Santo Bambino.
Regulars – Editorial: “O little town of Bethlehem...”; Christmas message from Canon Tuckwell; Recipe: Chocolate Snowballs; Book Review: St John Fisher; News in Brief; The Friends of Westminster Cathedral: In the footsteps of Wellington, Baldwin and Smiley; Diary; From the Registers.