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The Beda College is...
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A Seminary Situated in Rome
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For the formation of priests for Dioceses and Religious Congregations
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For English-speaking men over 30, with students from, at present, 10 countries
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Under the guidance of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales
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December 31
In sending greetings for the New Year to the Beda family, Canon Gillespie highlights Mary's example from the Gospel of 1st January. To treasure and ponder the Christmas feasts will be a solid 'centre of gravity' for the months that lie ahead. His full message is below. Photos are from the Beda community Mass of St Thomas Becket on 28th December in the Basilica of San Stefano Rotundo.Read More -
December 22
In his website message for Christmas, Canon Gillespie urges us, in these difficult times, to keep sight of the hope and vision of the Christmas feasts. Sixteen students, four staff and three FMDM Sisters remain in the college over Christmas while others have returned to their homes and families. The whole community wishes all our friends a Christmas rooted in the Good News which, as the Rector says, will bring much needed joy and warmth into our lives.Read More
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To Treasure and to Ponder in 2021
As we enter these first days of 2021, we send greetings from Collegio Beda with a sincere prayer for you and for those dear to you that we will be nourished by the grace of the first day of the new year, the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God, as we hear that she ‘treasured these things and pondered them in her heart’.
To treasure and to ponder, reflective words which sum up well the attitude with which we need to live these coming months. Absolutely we have to be active and determined and, despite vaccines and great steps of care and medicine, things will still be difficult and challenging in so many ways. However, without the inner ‘centre of gravity’ brought to us by the mysteries which we celebrate, we always run the risk of being busy for busy sake.
T. S. Eliot in his Four Quartets warned us against letting the doing overtake and ‘crowd out’ the being,We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
May the deep meaning of the Feasts of Christmastide be a constant strength and inspiration for our living in the months which lie before us;‘the loving mercy of the heart of our God who has visited us from on high‘.
Father PhilipThe Rector's January article for the Catholic Pictorial is here
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