Eastertide Sunday 3C, 1st May 2022 Jesus has forgiven Peter . The whole gospel is summed up in this story. Jesus comes for the forgiveness of sins. We touched on the unpopularity of the concept of sin on Friday, on the feast of Catherine of Siena and how at a …
St Catherine of Siena, 29th April 2022 We’ve attended a series of funerals recently, with one more to come today. And each was accompanied by a moving and marvellous eulogy, but also, in at least two cases, a real aversion to the full Christian Script where Christ’s sacrifice obtains for …
Saint Mark, 25th April 2022 There is always a temptation, in any form of writing or teaching, to conform the words to an already expected pattern of thought or belief rather than simply reporting what is seen – I’m probably doing it now. And it’s unfortunate that we celebrate the …
Eastertide Sunday 2C, 24th April 2022 The theme of belief is very powerful and constant throughout John’s gospel summed up perhaps in its two uses at the very beginning, in the Prologue: firstly in regard to John the Baptist He came as a witness, to bear witness to the lightso …
Easter Wednesday ‘Many years ago…’ — I find myself saying that with increasing frequency now — I was on a tube train in London and overheard one person say to the other, ‘Easter is on Sunday this year.’ And I thought, ‘Umh, so we really are living in a post-Christian …
Easter Monday This is a rather disturbing gospel passage, or should be, as it’s the beginning of that tradition of story-telling that identifies us as Christian over and against everything else: the beginning of that myth-making that can make one group comfortable in itself at the discomfort of others, the …
Easter Sunday It’s alarming at times how sin clings so closely to us, old memories and old enmities suddenly surfacing as if from nowhere – confessed and thought of as forgotten but a part of our fabric that, one press of a button, and there they are again in all …
Good Friday We spoke a little of the dread which must accompany the readings for this week as we accompany Christ on his way to the Cross, or rather, or just as well, as we put it yesterday, as Christ accompanies us, for what this whole journey is saying; that …
Holy Thursday Surely we don’t need more bad news! The world’s going to hell in a handcart and now Jesus is about to go, too. Why else remember him under the guise of bread and wine? Two recent statements have disturbed me: one from a priest who should have known …
Palm Sunday, 10th April, 2022 This touches on the death of all of us. We might wish to go quietly or suddenly or not at all – or we might wish to take the sting out of death by entrusting it to another: to a God who will take care …
