Sunday 28C, 9th October 2022 We have an insight here into the meaning of faith as action. Elisha does not say to Naaman ‘ believe in Yahweh the God of Israel and you will be cured ’ but go and bathe seven times in the river Jordan. Naaman is upset …
Sunday 27C, 2nd October 2022 Each day dawns differently. The duties of each day differ, but our duty does not. Our duty is to follow Christ wherever Christ leads us – and this may lead us through a seemingly similar set of duties each day : the steady plod of …
Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels, 29th September 2022 How to describe the ineffable? In our Wednesday masses in the monastery grounds, we work out the meaning of the readings between us, which led yesterday to the question, ‘Just how does Revelation work? How do we hear God’s word or …
Sunday 26C, 25th September 2022 Poverty, of course is relative, and the word itself can be used in many different ways: we are all ‘poor’ before God meaning perhaps that we have nothing to trade with God in order to be like God, that we always stand in need of …
Sunday 25C, 18th September 2022 Its very hard to sit easy with money, meaning it’s very hard whether poor or rich not to allow money to be the deciding factor in how one wants to live or rather , what it is one wants to live for. For the poor …
Trinity Sunday, 12th June 2022 Upon those who step into the same rivers different and different waters flow. This is Adam Nicholson’s translation of a famous quote from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Now, Adam Nicholson has had great fun in recent years creating a succession of rock pools on the …
Pentecost Sunday, 5th June 2022 Today completes the Pascal Mystery: the great reversal of our fortunes brought about by Christ: the undoing of the devil’s work one might say, begun in that garden so long ago when fallen humanity is sent out to labour in the world without ultimate success; …
The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, 30th May 2022 Pope Francis is very keen on personal encounter and especially on looking someone in the eye: the eyes have it, one might say, for there we read one another’s thoughts and learn to love. We transmit more than we know so …
Eastertide Sunday 6C, 29th may 2022 To live in the world of nature as an ecologist is to live in a world of wounds – to probably misquote Aldo Leopold, one of the pioneering ecologists of the early 20th century. As an ecologist one sees beauty, but also destruction, all …
Ascension Day, 26th May 2022 Luke seems to use time in a very plastic way here, moulding it to suit his purposes, placing the Ascension on Easter Day at the end of his gospel account of Jesus’ time with his disciples, and then placing it also forty days later at …
