Recent Event

Online Conference
​24th June 2021: 
'Living with Dementia'

The annual day conference on this most important subject  was broadcast online via Zoom  from the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
You can see the three excellent presentations and the Mass which took place beforehand  under the relevant headings below.
 Thanks to Fr Kevin Smith, Caroline Ward and Venetia Davies of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham for helping to facilitate the conference.
For accompanying resources - articles, websites, helplines and recommended books kindly provided by the speakers, click here

Mass from the Guild of All Souls Chapel : 24th June 2021

Spiritual and Pastoral Care of those with Dementia
​The Revd Dn Corinne Smith, Former Hospital and Hospice Chaplain for Older People's Medicine

Is your church dementia friendly?
​Maureen O'Neill, Director of 'Faith in Older People'

Living with Loss
Zena Aldridge, Research Fellow, Dementia UK, Hon. Lecturer University of East Anglia

Previous Events

All Souls Day, 2nd Nov 2020
Requiem Mass
 ​from the Guild of All Souls' Chantry Chapel of St Michael and the Holy Souls, Walsingham.

Celebrant and Preacher: The Revd Canon Andrew Greany, SSC, Chantry Priest.
The recording, made on 2nd November,  courtesy of the Shrine OLW, can still be accessed by clicking on the adjacent  image of the Chantry Chapel

Annual Mass at West Tofts
​24th June 2019

The church in Thetford Forest near Mundford, containing a chancel and chapel by Pugin, is under the patronage of the Guild of All Souls.
The village was compulsorily abandoned in WW2, since when it has been part of the Army’s Stanford battle training area. St Mary’s, the only complete building which remains, is usually inaccessible to the public.
Two services are permitted each year; a carol service in Advent arranged locally and the Mass arranged by The Guild each Summer.
The Celebrant of the Mass on a gloriously hot Summer evening was again the President of The Guild, The Rt Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough and the preacher was Fr Andrew Greany, Chantry Priest of The Guild. The setting for the Mass was Byrd Mass for Four Voices, rendered beautifully by the Horatio SIngers, who once again voluntarily offered their services in helping to make this such an uplifting occasion.
Refreshments kindly prepared by Maureen Howard were served in the churchyard afterwards.
[Photographs below courtesy of Graham Howard.]

2019 Day Conference:
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'Now and at the Hour of our Death'...​ .The Church's Ministry of Healing

*The 2019 day conference at Walsingham was held on 27th June at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Bishop Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough and President of The Guild welcomed nearly 50 participants.
The following Presentations were given:
  •  ‘Ministry of Healing in the Local Church’  by The Revd Fr Philip Gray SSC, Vicar of Mendlesham, Suffolk;
To read the presentation by Fr Philip Gray, click ​here.*
  • ‘Healing Ministries at Walsingham’ by The Revd Fr Andreas Wenzel SSC, Shrine Priest, Walsingham;
To read the presentation by Fr Andreas Wenzel click here*
  • ​‘Anointing with Holy Oil and the Last Rites’​ by The Revd Fr Peter Needham SSC, recently Chaplain of Barnsley Hospital, now Vicar of Athersley and Carlton, Diocese of Leeds