We have received a special message from the Archbishop and Bishops of Southwark addressed to the young people of the diocese. To read the letter: click here (PDF). The letter
Continue readingToday is the feast of the Sacred Heart. I have written about the feast for this weekend’s parish newsletter. The readings for today this year (Deuteronomy 7: 6-11, 1 John
Continue readingI have always been moved by the way in which the lectionary readings fit in coincidentally with what is going on our lives and in the life of the world.
Continue readingOur rather incomplete coverage at weekday Mass of the cycle of stories about the prophet Elijah concludes today (2 Kings 2) with the account of his assumption into heaven on
Continue readingIn 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 readingToday’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 readingIn 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 readingToday 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 readingEvelyn 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 readingThe 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-
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