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Congratulations to Canon Mark Hogan who was formally installed by Bishop Philip and the Provost of the Chapter, Mgr Cano...
18/06/2026

Congratulations to Canon Mark Hogan who was formally installed by Bishop Philip and the Provost of the Chapter, Mgr Canon David Hopgood, as a member of the Cathedral Chapter today at the Chapter Mass, celebrated by Mgr Canon John Nelson.

(Photos: Kirsten McGuire)

Thursday 18th JuneFeria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time] Diocesan Prayer: Parishes, Communities & Schools in the North East Ha...
18/06/2026

Thursday 18th June
Feria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time]
Diocesan Prayer: Parishes, Communities & Schools in the North East Hampshire Pastoral Area
† Canon Desmond Close (1989)

Wednesday 17th JuneFeria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time] Diocesan Prayer: Parish of St Boniface, Shirley, Southampton (consec...
17/06/2026

Wednesday 17th June
Feria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time]
Diocesan Prayer: Parish of St Boniface, Shirley, Southampton (consecrated 17.6.1947)
† Fr James Murphy (1905), Deacon Louis Omer (2011)

Bishop Philip writes...It’s back - the assisted su***de bill is set to return to Parliament. Yesterday, the Labour MP La...
16/06/2026

Bishop Philip writes...

It’s back - the assisted su***de bill is set to return to Parliament. Yesterday, the Labour MP Lauren Edwards agreed to devote her private member’s bill to this cause. “We owe it to all those terminally ill people and their families who are depending on this bill to ensure that parliament can come to a final decision on the question of choice at the end of life,” she said. “And I believe it undermines public trust in our democracy more widely if we cannot deliver on a measure that is supported by a very large majority of voters in all parts of the country.” Regardless of how many people think this or how many think that, as Catholics we need to proclaim clearly the dignity and value of all human life from conception to natural death. Life is a gift from God. Thou Shalt Not Kill is a basic norm of civilisation. It’s wrong to ask doctors, dedicated to the care of the sick, to kill the sick or help them to kill themselves. We need good palliative care not lethal drugs. Let us pray for the energy to mobilise, argue and persuade everyone to oppose this bill of death and instead, to support life.

Meanwhile, welcome to e-News issue 537 (2026/21) for Tuesday 16th June 2026: https://mailchi.mp/portsmouthdiocese/issue537

Talking of life and death, this coming Sunday is a Day of Prayer for Life and an opportunity to ask the Lord of heaven and earth to send the Holy Spirit upon us all that we may value human life from conception to natural death, praying especially for the safety of the unborn child, the sick, the elderly and the dying. Thank you for all who have sent in their good news from the parishes. In this month dedicated to the Sacred Heart, may the Lord bless you with His love during these summer days.

With all good wishes and an assurance of my prayers,

In Corde Iesu

+Philip

Bishop of Portsmouth

[Image: CBCEW]

Tuesday 16th JuneSt Richard of Chichester, optional memorialor: Feria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time]Diocesan Prayer: Parish ...
16/06/2026

Tuesday 16th June
St Richard of Chichester, optional memorial
or: Feria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time]
Diocesan Prayer: Parish Prayer Groups
† Canon Thomas Doyle (1896)

Monday 15th JuneFeria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time]Diocesan Prayer: Community of Sacred Heart, Lambourn (dedicated 15.6.198...
15/06/2026

Monday 15th June
Feria [Week 11 in Ordinary Time]
Diocesan Prayer: Community of Sacred Heart, Lambourn (dedicated 15.6.1980), Parish of St Thomas More, Twyford (dedicated 15.6.1981)
† Fr William Hawe (1905)

Saturday 13th JuneSt Anthony of Padua, Religious, Doctor of the Church, optional memorial (this year)or: The Immaculate ...
13/06/2026

Saturday 13th June
St Anthony of Padua, Religious, Doctor of the Church, optional memorial (this year)
or: The Immaculate Heart of Mary, optional memorial (this year)
Diocesan Prayer: The poor
Golden Jubilee: Fr Antony Gatt (Ordained: 13 June 1976)
† Canon Brian Scantlebury (2008)

FRIDAY 12TH JUNETHE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS, solemnity (Office Proper)National Prayer Cycle: World Day of Prayer for ...
12/06/2026

FRIDAY 12TH JUNE
THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS, solemnity (Office Proper)
National Prayer Cycle: World Day of Prayer for Priests
Diocesan Prayer: Community of Sacred Heart, St Aubin, Jersey
Diamond Jubilee: Mgr Ronald Hishon (Ordained: 12 June 1966)
† Fr Michael Purbrick (2019)

Novena to the Sacred Heart of JesusDay 9In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.O my Jes...
11/06/2026

Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Day 9

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.”

Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…

(Mention your Intention Here)

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of…

(Mention your Intention Here)

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.” Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of…

(Mention your Intention Here)

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.

Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Thursday 11th JuneSt Barnabas, Apostle, Memorial Diocesan Prayer: St Barnabas Society† Fr Ignatius Collingridge (1889), ...
11/06/2026

Thursday 11th June
St Barnabas, Apostle, Memorial
Diocesan Prayer: St Barnabas Society
† Fr Ignatius Collingridge (1889), Fr James Bellord (1905), Canon William Foran (1916), Fr Andrew Speakman (1998), Canon Brian Murphy O’Connor (2012)

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