Magnificat, British edition

21/07/2025

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07/05/2025

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love….

Lord God, you who govern your people and never cease to watch over them, grant to your Church, in your immense goodness and mercy, a shepherd who will lead your people by imitating your Divine Son and by spreading in the hearts of the faithful the truth of the Gospel. Amen.

21/04/2025

"Brothers and sisters, our hope has a name: the name of Jesus. He entered the tomb of our sin; he descended to those depths where we feel most lost; he wove his way through the tangles of our fears, bore the weight of our burdens and from the dark abyss of death restored us to life and turned our mourning into joy. Let us celebrate Easter with Christ! He is alive! Today, too, he walks in our midst, changes us and sets us free. Thanks to him, evil has been robbed of its power; failure can no longer hold us back from starting anew; and death has become a passage to the stirrings of new life. For with Jesus, the Risen Lord, no night will last forever; and even in the darkest night, in that darkness, the morning star continues to shine."
—Pope Francis
From the homily during the Easter Vigil, 2022

(Pictured: the back cover of Magnificat Holy Week 2025, with 'Trees on yellow background' (1901), Odilon Redon (1840–1916), Orsay Museum, Paris. © RMN-GP (musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski)

21/04/2025

We join the Church in mourning the passing of Pope Francis.

Eternal rest grant unto him,
O Lord, and let perpetual light
shine upon him.

As we pray for the repose of his soul, we commend him to the mercy of the Lord, whom he loved and served, in the hope that he will soon see him face to face.

"There is an urgent need to see once again that faith is a light, for once the flame of faith dies out, all other lights begin to dim. The light of faith is unique, since it is capable of illuminating every aspect of human existence. A light this powerful cannot come from ourselves but from a more primordial source: in a word, it must come from God.

Faith is born of an encounter with the living God who calls us and reveals his love, a love which precedes us and upon which we can lean for security and for building our lives. Transformed by this love, we gain fresh vision, new eyes to see; we realize that it contains a great promise of fulfillment, and that a vision of the future opens up before us.

Faith, received from God as a supernatural gift, becomes a light for our way, guiding our journey through time. On the one hand, it is a light coming from the past, the light of the foundational memory of the life of Jesus which revealed his perfectly trustworthy love, a love capable of triumphing over death. Yet since Christ has risen and draws us beyond death, faith is also a light coming from the future and opening before us vast horizons which guide us beyond our isolated selves towards the breadth of communion. We come to see that faith does not dwell in shadow and gloom; it is a light for our darkness."

Pope Francis
From Lumen Fidei (2013),
the first encyclical of his pontificate

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21/04/2025

O God, you were pleased to give joy to the world through the Resurrection of your Son. Grant, we beseech you, that through the mediation of the Virgin Mary, his Mother, we may obtain the joys of life everlasting. Amen.

Wishing you all a very blessed Eastertide!

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06/03/2025

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14/02/2025

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04/02/2025

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21/01/2025

Come join us at Word on Fire's London Conference on the Bible next month! Two days of excellent talks and visiting with Catholic vendors.

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30/12/2024

Apologies for the cover calendar print error in the January issue: the editor was on maternity leave! Here is the correct calendar for England/Wales/Scotland:

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24/12/2024

All subscribers who paid by 15th December should be receiving their January and February books by the 31st December (they were sent out at the end of last week).

With Christmas Eve blessings upon you and your households,
—all of us at Magnificat

06/12/2024

https://catholicherald.co.uk/new-lectionary-arrives-in-catholic-churches-across-england-wales-and-scotland-this-weekend/

“We urgently need to grow in our knowledge and love of the Scriptures and of the risen Lord, who continues to speak his word and to break bread in the community of believers,” Pope Francis said on the 1600th anniversary of the death of the patron saint of translators, Saint Jerome. And what better time to renew ourselves in this goal than as we start a new liturgical year—a year of Jubilee—and the holy season of Advent.