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May is a month especially dedicated to honouring the Holy Mother of God. Today at the seminary, the statue of Our Lady was crowned before Mass. During May we pray the Litany of Loreto daily, as well as gathering for the rosary as a community. O Mary, conceived without original sin, pray for us who […]

It was honours even as Allen Hall and Oscott football teams battled out a 0-0 draw on Wednesday afternoon at Battersea Park. After last season’s 10-1 drubbing, Oscott travelled to London with a point to prove and built a squad that the Allen Hall team couldn’t break down. A narrow pitch somewhat hindered both teams, […]

The Fourth Sunday of Easter is known as Good Shepherd Sunday, after Our Lord’s words in the Gospel. He calls men to share in His priesthood as Good Shepherds, who are willing to lay down their lives for the sheep, as He was. It is a particular day of prayer for priests and vocations to […]

Today the seminary celebrated the (transferred from Holy Week) Solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pictured is the shrine to Our Lady in the seminary Chapel. May Our Lady, Mother of the Word Incarnate, pray for us all that we be ever more conformed to the image of her […]

We give thanks to Almighty God for the gift of a new priest: Fr Matúš Meleg (pictured here making his promise of fidelity) was ordained on Sunday 16th March for the Diocese of Brentwood. May God bless him abundantly with a holy and fruitful priesthood, helping him to sanctify all those he is called to […]

Allen Hall celebrated the Solemnity of St Joseph with a Solemn Pontifical Mass. In his homily, Bishop John Sherrington spoke about how St Joseph is a model of fatherhood for priests, who are called to spiritual fathers of those entrusted to their care, configured to Christ the Good Shepherd. May he pray for us and […]

The staff and students of Allen Hall began the penitential season of Lent by ceremoniously burying the ‘Alleluia’, the Church’s song of joy, which will not now be heard until we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection at Easter. We wish you all a holy and prayerful Lent.

Each year Allen Hall produces a journal, Vivamus in Spe (‘Let us live in hope’), reflecting on the spiritual, pastoral, intellectual and human life of the house. the 2023 and 2022 editions can be viewed below. The 2024 edition will be published in the autumn.

The seminary celebrated the feast of Candlemas, when Christ our Lord was presented in the Temple and Simeon sung of Him as the ‘light to enlighten the Gentiles’. Mass began with the blessing of candles and procession through the seminary to the Chapel.