Category: Faith Life

26th February 2018

Chapel Update… You will remember our One Hundred Years of Faith project to produce kneelers for our Chapel, started in 2015; twelve small and one long kneeler.  Well, the exciting news is that eleven of the small kneelers have been completed and we are awaiting completion of the twelfth, and then it’s on to the…

23rd February 2018

A Time of Transformation. Lent is a time of transformation, when we strive, with God’s help, to undertake the journey that is Lent with a pure heart and a spirit of compassion.  We thought we would share this prayer with you today to take with you on this journey to Easter.    

23rd February 2018

A School Community. The Lent Half Term began, as always, with our school’s Feast Day on Friday 9th February.  Originally held on the Feast Day of Reverend Mother, this is a tradition which reaches back many years into the history of St Augustine’s Priory, when the school was in France.  At the beginning of the…

9th February 2018

Ignatian Spirituality This year Ash Wednesday falls during our Half Term.  Mrs McDermott, Head of Religious Studies, draws our attention to a website which invites us to reflect on each day of Lent as we go through the Lenten journey.  This is a way of praying the Examen throughout Lent with materials provided by Fr…

7th February 2018

Mother Mary Francis. Marking the centenary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act granting some women the right to vote in 1918 brought back memories of our own suffragette at St Augustine’s Priory. Mother Mary Francis, a strong, hyper-intelligent woman, was a member of the community of Augustinian Canonesses of the Lateran…

2nd February 2018

Mrs Raffray is interviewed.  In her letter today, Mrs Raffray, Headteacher, commented on her appearance on Sky News yesterday on an item concerned with faith schools. ‘I have been talking to the girls about “hot iron” moments – times when you are pressed hard and consequently from which you benefit. I could not have known…

12th January 2018

A week of celebration On Monday the Nursery began the new term by learning about the journey of the Magi to see the baby Jesus, celebrated in the Feast of the Epiphany. Miss Honeyman, Nursery Teacher, describes how the voyage to Bethlehem progressed:   ‘Nursery celebrated the feast of the Epiphany by taking the “long…

12th January 2018

Changing direction This week has been about changing directions.  From the Feast of the Epiphany, when after visiting Jesus, the Magi ‘were warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way’, to the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord when Jesus, after his…

8th January 2018

Looking forward with hope and faith As we begin this new year of 2018 at St Augustine’s Priory we are pleased to share this prayer for guidance and blessing.    

18th December 2017

An evening of joy Choirs, orchestras, soloists, readers, pupils, staff and parents – all our community at St Augustine’s joined together for our annual Carol Service on Tuesday 12th December at Ealing Abbey.  Fr Thomas led us in the Opening Prayer and the packed Abbey was then filled with the sounds of praise and jubilation….