Sacred Heart, 19th June 2020 This time needs poetry, so heavy is it with meaning. John’s first letter is written with something of this ‘heaviness’ in view and yet with a poetic lightness that brings God close, or better, introduces us gently into the furnace of God’s love – the …
Sunday 11A, 14th June 2020 I had a dream: a post-Covid 19 dream (hopefully) – it involved loss but also gain. I am in a room of my own – rather comfortable – perhaps in bed – but a vague uneasiness begins to arise and I feel the need to …
Corpus Christi, 11th June 2020 It’s almost three months now since our last reception of the body and blood of Christ – or, at least, for most of us. The priests have continued to say Mass on behalf of everyone else and to offer and receive the eucharistic elements – …
Trinity Sunday, 7th June 2020 We may think we are standing outside the ‘physics’ of God, outside the theoretical construct of the Trinity. We may think that in this privileged position of objective observation we can discern the workings of God from afar and sum it up in some neat …
Pentecost, 31st May, 2020 Perhaps the deepest irony, or mystery, of our faith is that when it is fulfilled God disappears from sight. The danger then becomes that we fill this ‘space’ with the imagery of faith rather than the fact of it, with the things of God, rather than …
St Augustine of Canterbury, 27th May 2020 We live in an age of anxiety, slowly emerging into a ‘foreign’ land; a land we know not yet how to develop and in which to, once again, find security. Great hopes are being voiced as to this being an age of opportunity; …
Eastertide Sunday 7A, 24th May 2020 It is as if, here, God is standing outside himself. The Son gives notice of his intention to return to the Father as if the Father would not know this, or he himself could have intended otherwise. And in this ‘dialogue’ we see the …
Ascension Day, 21st May 2020 Can we see Christ’s life as a commentary on our own? A recent commentator on the seismic shift which Covid 19 has had on our society highlights the inadequacy of the present capitalist way of doing things and the realisation that the huge kindnesses and …
Eastertide Sunday 6A, 17th May 2020 In a recent biopic of Winston Churchill at his ‘Darkest Hour’ when Great Britain faces certain defeat on the continent and Parliament seems minded to make peace with Hitler, the tide is turned, not by military might but by words- his famous speech invoking …
Saint Matthias, 14th May 2020 Matthias comes late to the leadership and is both the choice of the disciples and the choice of God, if one accepts choosing by lot as a way of allowing God to have a say. This subtle, or not so subtle, interplay of man proposing …
