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Visitors from the East
There are six Catholic Patriarchs of the East. This weekend Fisher House had the On the right, greeting students outside the Chapel,...

Fr Paul Keane
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Dolphins Surface in Oxford
The Chaplain's football days are too few to record on the back of a stamp (for our youngest undergraduates I should explain that a stamp...

Fr Paul Keane
May 242 min read
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The Fisher Mass
Yesterday, in the midst of a beautiful Mass at Great St Mary's - as we praised God for his servant St John Fisher and sought the prayers...

Fr Paul Keane
May 67 min read
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A Century!
On this day (4 May), a hundred years ago, the first Mass was offered up at Fisher House. The Black Swan had been bought the year before...

Fr Paul Keane
May 41 min read
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A Century of Masses
The Homily for this Maundy Thursday at Fisher House. 2025 is no ordinary year. For the universal Church it is a Holy one, a Jubilee. ...

Fr Paul Keane
Apr 183 min read
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Fides Quaerens Intellectum
For this year of the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Fisher House has arranged a series of twelve lectures on the Nicaean...

Fr Paul Keane
Mar 81 min read
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Evensong at Fisher House
So much has happened at Fisher House in the first six weeks of term! In the final two weeks of term and during these first days of Lent,...

Fr Paul Keane
Mar 61 min read
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A Portrait
Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of Mgr Mark Langham, the thirteenth Catholic Chaplain to the University of Cambridge...

Fr Paul Keane
Jan 151 min read
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2025 - An Eucharistic Centenary
Last year we marked the centenary of the purchase of Fisher House. In 2025 we celebrate the centenary of the first Mass at the Chaplaincy...

Fr Paul Keane
Jan 11 min read
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Catholic Cambridge
We are blessed that the different Catholic parts of Cambridge work closely and well together. Term began with Fisher House on pilgrimage...

Fr Paul Keane
Nov 17, 20241 min read
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A Centenary Sunday
Bishop John Sherrington celebrated Mass at Fisher House on Sunday 12 May and conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation on members of the...

Fr Paul Keane
May 18, 20244 min read
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Ratzinger Conference - Thursday 2 May
In 1988, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stayed at Fisher House and gave the annual Fisher Lecture. In the Chaplaincy's history, few guests...

Fr Paul Keane
Apr 30, 20241 min read
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Bishop Erik Varden's Lecture
This Thursday (25 April) at 6 pm in the Chapel of Fisher House, we have the wonderful opportunity to hear Erik Varden, the Bishop of...
pjk1001
Apr 23, 20241 min read
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Seeking Unity: Wednesday 24 January at 6.30 pm
Cambridge is rich with music, especially the College Chapels. The richest of their Liturgies is Evensong. This is the name that English...

Fr Paul Keane
Jan 23, 20242 min read
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700th Anniversary
St Michael's Church is precious to all who love St John Fisher. It was the chapel of Michaelhouse, a college of the university, which...
pjk1001
Jan 1, 20241 min read
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Chastity
Erik Varden is the Bishop of Trondheim, Norway, having been for some years a monk and Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Mount St Bernard's....

Fr Paul Keane
Nov 27, 20231 min read
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Investing In Our Future
FH 100 - Benefactor We only have a future because those of the past invested in it. Percy Fitzgerald died ninety-eight years ago on 25...

Fr Paul Keane
Nov 25, 20232 min read
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Praying for Gilbey
Mgr Alfred Newman Alfred Gilbey was the Catholic Chaplain to the University of Cambridge from 1932-65. He is buried in the court yard of...

Fr Paul Keane
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Welcome Bishop Nicholas
This Sunday (19 November), Rt Revd Nicholas Hudson, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, will celebrate both 9.30 am and 11 am Mass. ...

Fr Paul Keane
Nov 16, 20231 min read
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Helping the Homeless
As in all towns, there are plenty of people in need in Cambridge. Fisher House has a long tradition of bringing food and other supplies...

Fr Paul Keane
Nov 14, 20232 min read
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