Start 2026 with our Saints for a New Year webinar series, exploring how the lives and wisdom of the saints can guide and encourage us today. Each talk offers a clear, thoughtful reflection on faith lived in real and changing circumstances.
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Margaret Hebblethwaite, author, journalist and theologian, will reflect on Mary, the mother of Jesus, and consider how much Jesus learned from her. This accessible, illustrated talk will consider how her message of social justice, and her commitment to God’s will, can be a model for us in 2026, in our world of refugees and the bereaved.
Wednesday 7 January 2026 | 6.00–7.00pm GMT
Blessed Pauline Jaricot
Fr Anthony Chantry explores the life and legacy of Blessed Pauline Jaricot, founder of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith. This webinar reflects on how her prayerful, generous faith — rooted in small, everyday acts — continues to inspire Christians to share in the Church’s mission today.
Wednesday 14 January 2026 6.00pm – 7.00pm GMT
St Thomas Aquinas: Faith and Reason
Fr Thomas Joseph White, O.P. will explore the enduring relationship between faith and reason in the thought of St Thomas Aquinas. Drawing on Aquinas’s theological vision, this session considers how intellectual seriousness, spiritual depth and openness to truth can help Christians engage confidently with contemporary culture and questions.
Wednesday 21 January 2026 | 6.00–7.00pm GMT
St Elizabeth Ann Seton: Finding Purpose in Ordinary Life
Dr Anna Abram, Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, will reflect on the life of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native-born US citizen to be canonised. Her story as a wife, mother, educator and convert offers a compelling vision of holiness rooted in ordinary life, resilience and vocation.
Wednesday 28 January 2026 | 6.00–7.00pm GMT
This series will appeal to those seeking to deepen their faith, as well as anyone interested in how the saints continue to speak to life and belief in the twenty-first century.