Douglas Knight

The Word transforming – The composer James MacMillan and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts Thursday 29 October 12.00-1.30pm St Faith’s Chapel, St Paul’s Cathedral

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Money: A Crisis of Value St Paul’s Cathedral Institute’s 2009 series will address the moral questions raised by the dramatic financial situation, and whether opportunities for society’s good can come from the economic crisis.

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Still on the subject of money, have you met Thomas Greco, David Boyle, Ellen Brown, David Korten and Richard Douthwaite ? A clear victory for the popularisers over the academics. Though there is a flash of genius from Willem Buiter (you’ll need to persevere).

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The Romanian Orthodox parish of Saint George invites you to join us in prayer for the celebration the Divine Liturgy and of the sacrament of the ordination to the priesthood of Deacon Liviu Barbu
His Eminence Josif Pop Archbishop of the Romanian Metropolis of Central and Western Europe will preside over the Divine Service
The Fourth Sunday [...]

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I am giving a series of four short Lent lunchtime talks, with Q&A, starting Wednesday 11th March at St Stephen’s Walbrook. These will deal with Lent and Easter, Church and Eucharist, and they will be light but theological.

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An Emergency Call to Prayer For Christian Leaders in the UK
11am – 4pm Saturday 28th February 2009 Emmanuel Christian Centre, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW
When a nation is in trouble it is right for leaders to call the people to prayer. Our nation is in trouble – more than most people are aware. In December [...]

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Professor Philip Booth Catholicism and Capitalism, ‘Faith Matters’ lectures Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SW1, 18th March 7.00pm
The Catholic Church has never supported socialism and has often spoken against the excesses of welfare states. However, the Church has never been totally comfortable with capitalism either – and certainly not with the materialism [...]

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Helpers of God’s Precious Infants
The next vigil at Marie Stopes abortion facility, 88 Russell Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5QB, will be held on 24 January 2009 From St Thomas of Canterbury Church, 557/559 High Road, Woodford Green IG8 0RB led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
8.45am – Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at [...]

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These “liberals”, as they like to be called, who constitute the hierarchy detest the Christian past and dismiss our forefathers in the faith as “primitive”. Really they are old-fashioned Whigs in new Guardianista clothing – apostles of the discredited doctrine of “progress”. And God help anyone who stands in the way of these ecclesiastical totalitarians [...]

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Northern Europe’s suicidal infatuation with secularisation is not typical. And even in Northern Europe, in England, where the full faith is taught the church is growing…
What we have seen these last forty years is la trahison des clercs: the people appointed to be the guardians of our spiritual welfare have betrayed us….
The church authorities have [...]

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Christian Concern for our Nation
The final stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HFE Bill) will take place on 22nd October, subject to final confirmation still to be given by the Public Bill Office.
This Bill is one of the most destructive pieces of legislation that we will see in our lifetime. It is anti-life, [...]

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Monday 13th October St Edward the Confessor

O God, who didst call thy servant Edward to an an earthly Throne that he might advance thy heavenly kingdom, and didst give him zeal for thy Church and love for thy people: Mercifully grant that we who commemorate him this day may be [...]

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You know what we need now? Large public acts of reparation (that’s repentance, and penitence, which is repentance over the long-term).
Annual Rosary Crusade of Reparation – Saturday 11th October

Procession from Westminster Cathedral to Brompton Oratory with the statue of Our Lady of Fatima and the 15 decades of the Rosary. Starting 1.45pm [...]

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Reconciliation in Christ? Atonement and Sacrifice
Touchstones of disunity or the pathway to communion?

Saturday 14 June 2008 10.30 – 3pm
Cheyneygates, Dean’s Yard
Westminster Abbey, London SW1
Canon Nicholas Sagovsky
Westminster Abbey
Douglas Knight
Theologian and Author

The doctrine of the atonement has been controversial within Anglican thinking in recent years, marking the different principles held by [...]

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Coming up is the Pentecost festival in the West End from Friday-Sunday 9th-11th May.
Also on Pentecost weekend we have 24-7 Prayer and Global Day of Prayer events.
There is the New Dynamic Prayer Conference from Holy Trinity Brompton with Jesus House in June and and Worship Central’s day conference in July.
All this prayer and [...]

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The Bishop of London
Tracing the Drama of Holy Week:Preparing for the Resurrection Life
Monday 17th March, 1pm
Tuesday 18th March, 1pm
Wednesday 19th March, 1pm
St Stephen Walbrook

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Love & Responsibility – Theological Lecture Series 2008
Due to the success of Catholicism for the Curious and Theology of the Body, the School of Evangelisation will be hosting a third series of lectures this year, commencing on Wednesday 27th February at supper & welcome at 6.15pm with talk starting at 7pm.
A series of high profile [...]

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Some oddly non-Roman Catholic speakers have been chosen for
The Cardinal’s Lectures – Faith and Life in Britain
Westminster Cathedral, London April-May 2008

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We are facing great dangers as a society. An excessive emphasis on the rights of individuals not only dissolves those institutions in which we learn and grow as persons but also paradoxically it entails a huge extension of state surveillance and regulation. Regulation is increasingly necessary as social bonds erode, to order the traffic and [...]

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The Bishop of London and the Bishop of Chelmsford, The Rt Revd John Gladwin today announced the formation of a new training college aimed at strengthening the church’s mission in the dioceses of London and Chelmsford.
The new college will be named St Mellitus College and will incorporate some of the excellent ministerial training that is [...]

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