Burning Bush: Reflection for 20th Week of the Year, The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Monsignor Daniel McHugh, the Co-ordinator for Ethnic Chaplaincies in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, presents the latest episode of The Burning Bush.

Reflection for 20th Week of Ordinary Time "A woman adorned with the sun standing on the moon".

Mgr Daniel discusses Saint Maximilian Kolbe and his devotion to Mary Immaculate.

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Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales

Bishop John Arnold (Diocese of Salford) is the lead on the Environment for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. In Lent 2019, Bishop John announced the Laudato Si' centre in response to the current climate crisis and Pope Francis’s call for us all to care for our common home in his document Laudato Si'.

Reflection for 3rd Sunday of Easter

14 April 2024: “All will be well”
Burning Bush: Easter Sunday and the fact of the Resurrection

Reflection for Easter Sunday – 31 March 2024 “He saw and he believed”
North Staffs Walsingham Association Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage to The National Shrine, Wednesday 20 - Saturday 23 March. Seeking peace and solitude through prayerful dialogue with Our Blessed Lady and her Son.
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day 2024

It was a joy to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at St. Anne’s Church, Digbeth (the Irish Quarter in Birmingham) on Sunday 17 March.
Men’s Rosary in the City of Birmingham

In the heart of Birmingham City Centre on February 17th, 2024 between 75 and 80 Catholic men led by Ben Thatcher, knelt down to publicly express their faith by praying the Rosary as requested by Our Lady of Fatima for the conversion of the world.
Burning Bush: Reflection for Third Week of Lent

“I will give you a new spirit, says the Lord.” with Monsignor Daniel McHugh
“How can I renounce the King who saved me”

Reflection for 2nd Week of Lent: Sunday 25 February: “How can I renounce the King who saved me” (St Polycarp Feast 23 Feb)
Burning Bush: Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of the Year and World Day of the Sick

“In the morning, long before dawn, He got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there” with Monsignor Daniel McHugh
Burning Bush: Reflection for the Second Sunday of the Year

“Speak Lord, your servant is listening” with Monsignor Daniel McHugh
Burning Bush: Reflection for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord

“O Star of Wonder” with Monsignor Daniel McHugh