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Fr Paul Keane
Jan 151 min read
A Portrait
Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of Mgr Mark Langham, the thirteenth Catholic Chaplain to the University of Cambridge...
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Fr Paul Keane
Jan 11 min read
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...
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 17, 20241 min read
Catholic Cambridge
We are blessed that the different Catholic parts of Cambridge work closely and well together. Term began with Fisher House on pilgrimage...
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Fr Paul Keane
May 18, 20244 min read
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...
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Fr Paul Keane
Apr 30, 20241 min read
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...
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pjk1001
Apr 23, 20241 min read
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...
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Fr Paul Keane
Jan 23, 20242 min read
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...
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pjk1001
Jan 1, 20241 min read
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...
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 27, 20231 min read
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....
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 25, 20232 min read
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...
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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...
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 16, 20231 min read
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. ...
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 14, 20232 min read
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...
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 14, 20233 min read
Corpus Christi College Mass
The homily preached by Fr Paul Keane on Monday 13 November 2023. Perhaps most members of the University do not spend much time...
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Fr Paul Keane
Nov 2, 20231 min read
Our Apostle
This Sunday (5 November) Bishop Peter Collins of the Diocese of East Anglia will join us at Fisher House. He will preside at 9.30 am...
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Fr Paul Keane
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Requiescant in Pace
The two great religious feasts of Michaelmas Term fall during this week: All Saints on 1 November and All Souls on 2 November. On both...
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Julia Wdowin
Oct 26, 20233 min read
The Dolphins
Anima sana in corpore sano! For centuries connections between the body, mind and soul have been made. A sound mind and body lay...
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Fr Paul Keane
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Poetry at FH
Sunday 29 October, 8 pm, in the Great Chamber "Your hay it is mow’d, and your corn it is reap’d; Your barns will be full, and your hovels...
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Fr Paul Keane
Oct 19, 20231 min read
The Inaugural Langham Lecture - Monday 23 October at 6 pm
'Living and Loving Reasonably: Refreshing Christian Culture in a Complex World.' Mgr Mark Langham was the Catholic Chaplain to the...
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Fr Paul Keane
Oct 16, 20231 min read
The Papal Nuncio
On 19 October, St John's College keeps the birthday of St John Fisher. Born in 1469, he ensured that the wishes of Margaret Beaufort, the...
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