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Evelyn Underhill, the Catholic writer once said, “A lot of the road to heaven has to be taken at thirty miles an hour.” Sometimes we would like life to move
Continue reading“O still small voice of calm”
The final verse of this much-loved hymn, with the words ‘O still small voice of calm’ is a reference to today’s first reading at Mass from 1 Kings 19: 9-
Continue readingThursday: Feast of St Barnabas
Today is the feast of St Barnabas. A few weeks ago in the season of Eastertide we heard at Mass in our readings from Acts about his missionary journeys with
Continue readingOur Church Reopening Plans
As you know it was announced at the weekend that the government is permitting churches and other places of worship to be open from next week. Your clergy team are
Continue readingSt Ephraem the Syrian
Not many deacons have been canonised or occur in the universal calendar of the Church. Ephraem the Syrian, whose feast day is today, was also a major theologian of the
Continue readingTrinity Sunday, and Church doors to open again…
I have written about Trinity Sunday in our parish newsletter this weekend, available on our website HERE, and I don’t really want to add very much: I will be posting some
Continue readingSt Boniface, the European
Some years ago on this day at Mass in St Edmund’s I commented in my homily that today’s saint reminded us of the Catholic Church’s commitment to European unity. A
Continue readingFeast Day of Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
Yesterday, and I am sorry I didn’t post a separate entry about the scripture readings, we broadened our coverage in the first readings at weekday Mass of the later parts
Continue reading“Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s”
Today’s gospel reading (Mark 12: 13-17) is well known, but at the same time a passage so often spectacularly misunderstood and distorted. The encounter between Jesus and the Pharisees and
Continue readingMary, Mother of the Church
The Easter season ended yesterday so our cycle of readings at Mass resumes as ‘Ordinary Time’, which we left ages ago on Shrove Tuesday (and it really does feel like
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