Jesus Christ...the ruler of the kings of the earth, loves us and has washed away our sins with his blood and made us a line of kings, priests to serve his God and Father.
In October, the Archives team was joined for a week by Sophie, a recent graduate with an interest in a career in Archives. As well as the usual tasks of calendaring, indexing, and transcribing, Sophie was able to explore the Archives by helping to prepare and select pieces for our annual exhibition, which coincides with the national Explore Your Archives campaign. Read Sophie’s blog post to find out about her experience.
The design of the All Souls’ Chapel in the church of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon is remarkable. Approaching it, perhaps the first thing to notice is the reredos. On this vividly carved altarpiece, the artist, Drysdale, was trying to show the diverse multitude of souls approaching Chri
Over the last four years, the Jesuits in Britain Archives have published several blog posts to commemorate events of the First World War, the centenary of which will be reaching its conclusion this November. In this blog post, the Archives look at sources from the days surrounding the armistice, and the years that followed.
David Stewart SJ helps us to reflect on the Pope's prayer intention for November 2018 that "the language of love and dialogue may always prevail over the language of conflict”.
Preaching at Evensong at St. John’s College Cambridge, Sarah Teather, Director of JRS UK, spoke on the Christian values of offering hospitality to refugees and how giving hospitality is itself a gift.
Jesuit Scholastic Chris Brolly has spent six weeks in Calais working alongside migrants and refugees. He reflects on how entering deeply into another’s lived experience has energised his faith journey.
In this week's 'From the Archives' blog, we continue our series of guest posts written by our wonderful work experience students from earlier in the summer. This post comes from Alex Blaney, who was with us for two weeks to gain experience of work in an archive.
The imitation of Christ is our mission. To be like Jesus is the task he has given us in the world: the cup that I must drink, you shall drink. This imitation is much more than copying or mimicry. To be like the One who came to serve and to give hi
