Tuesday’s Reflections
In our first reading at Mass today (1 Kings 21:17-29) we hear the aftermath to the killing of Naboth. This picture by the Victorian artist Frederick Leighton shows the prophet
Continue readingMonday’s Reflections, as our Church reopens
Today’s first reading from 1 Kings (21), the story of Naboth, is one of the most chilling and powerful stories in the Old Testament. In the biblical world-view false religion
Continue readingThe Feast of Corpus Christi
In this country we keep today (rather than last Thursday) the feast of Corpus Christi. This feast developed in the Middle Ages as a way of marking even more joyfully
Continue readingFeast of St Anthony of Padua
Today is the feast of St Anthony of Padua, the great thirteenth century Franciscan preacher and one of the most popular saints in the Church; his statue in our church
Continue readingWelcome Back
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
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