Some more good news

I am very excited and humbled to share with you the news that I have been accepted by the University of Oxford to begin a two-year programme at Blackfriars Hall from the start of the next academic year in October. The programme of study for which I have been accepted is the MTh (Master of Theology) in Applied Theology. This will give me the opportunity to explore further interreligious and ecumenical dialogue, areas which have increasingly intrigued and challenged me. It is my hope and desire that this experience will help me in my current involvement with the International Council for Christians and Jews (ICCJ) and the Emerging Leaders delegation* of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, of which I am an active member. I hope, too, that I will be able to pursue further my interest in dialogue with the Eastern Churches, particularly those attached to the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Moscow. As always, I rely on your constant prayers.

I have been asked on a number of occasions to submit a blog post to the Guild of Blessed Titus Brandma, and have decided to submit a copy of my talk on Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, which I shall be delivering, at the kind invitation of the Dominican brothers, to the pilgrims travelling with the English Dominican Province to the World Youth Day celebrations in Madrid. I shall submit that post shortly.

Benedicite.

*This group is comprised of six young Catholics and six young Jews from around the world and is a joint group coordinated on the Catholic side by the secretary of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, Fr. Norbert Hofmann SDB, and on the Jewish side by Rabbi Richard Marker, chair of IJCIC: the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations.