At Evening Prayer on the eve of the first Sunday of Advent, our wreath was blessed and the first candle was lit. In the Advent Recollection, Fr Tony Currer, a priest of Hexham and Newcastle Diocese who works at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Chistian Unity, spoke of the need to make space in the darkness for Christ to enter into our world and into our lives. As the Advent light increases week by week, we pray that this season will bring great blessings to all friends, benefactors and former students of the Beda. Maranatha - Come, Lord Jesus!