A basketball in my hands is worth about $19. A basketball in Michael Jordan’s hands is worth about $33 million. It depends on whose hands it’s in… A baseball in my hands is worth about $6. A baseball in Mark McGuire’s hands is worth $19 million. It depends on whose
Continue readingThe following is the text of the second in our Lent Programme of talks. It was delivered by Father Ashley in Church on 14 March 2017, and a recording can be found on our Webcam page. You can also download or print a copy. Next Saturday evening at Mass the
Continue readingThe following is the text of the first in our Lent Programme of talks entitled THE CHURCH AND THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. It was delivered by Father Ashley in Church on 7 March 2017, and a recording can be found on our Webcam page. You can also download or print
Continue readingIf you google Shrove Tuesday (Tuesday this week) you tend to get numerous images of piles of pancakes, perhaps reflecting its alternative name, Fat Tuesday. Children might well think that the word ‘shrove’ means a pancake; after all the traditional English name for Monday this week, Collop Monday, does refer
Continue readingIN THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE, last Tuesday was kept as the feast day of two of the six patron saints of Europe, the brothers Cyril and Methodius. Because of the popularity and growing commercialisation of St Valentine’s day, (who is not in the Church calendar anyway because the facts about
Continue readingTODAY IS RACIAL JUSTICE SUNDAY. These reflections are part of what has been prepared by a group of Christians from Belfast for all the churches in this country to use today (for the full text go to www.ctbi.org.uk): A comprehensive definition of racism is that it is a system of
Continue readingRECENTLY, at the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, I said at Mass that one thing we can all do, if we are serious about ecumenism, is to try and learn from Christians in other traditions. Lent is less than a month away and we have
Continue readingA few evenings ago I took a break from my busy Advent schedule and switched on the television. My intention was to find a film or documentary in-keeping with the season of Advent and Christmas. Fat chance! What I found myself watching for the first time and steadily being drawn
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Some of you may recognise this picture. It is from the Church of Our Lady of the Expectations in San Thome in Chennai (formerly Madras), in the state of Tamil Nadu in eastern India. As I seem to point out on this Sunday every year there are comparatively few images around of
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