Easter Thursday, 16th April 2020 When we celebrate Easter, we are really standing in the middle of a second ‘Big Bang’, a tumultuous surge of divine energy as fiery and as intense as the very beginning of the universe. What a recent writer wonderfully calls ‘the fire in the equations’ …
Easter Thursday, 16th April 2020 When we celebrate Easter, we are really standing in the middle of a second ‘Big Bang’, a tumultuous surge of divine energy as fiery and as intense as the very beginning of the universe. What a recent writer wonderfully calls ‘the fire in the equations’ …
Easter Wednesday, 15th April 2020 We are gathering the fell tomorrow. James Reebanks: The Shepherd’s Life p.8 Words of the ‘elder statesman’ of the fell shepherds in one part of the Lake District as the day comes for bringing down the Herdwick or Swaledale sheep from their winter pasture. This …
Easter Tuesday, 14th April 2020 By her tears and her waiting, Mary expresses her true desire. And Jesus responds. This is where we touch on our own true desire. What are we here for? Whom do we seek? And the answer lies in some very primal emotions which years of …
Easter Monday, 13th April 2020 There is a strong blame game going on at the moment as one way of coping with the present epidemic trauma in all its various guises – more immediate for some and less for others – and blame in all its various guises – some …
The Easter Vigil, 12th April 2020 The house we live in has a long memory. This is not the first time that prayers have been said here behind locked doors and in fear of ones life. The Penal Code and the Covid-19 virus are very different, but the ramifications, spiritual …
Holy Saturday, 11th April 2020 How then do we become like him in his death? By having been buried with him in baptism. But how does this burial take place?…First of all one must break with one’s life of the past…before beginning this second life, we must bring the first …
Good Friday, 10th April 2020 There’s been a series of programmes recently on the BBC iPlayer showing home movies from the Second World War, one largely of the conflict in and around Burma and two of Germany at war form 1939 onwards. All contain disturbing scenes of human suffering but …
Holy Thursday, 9th April 2020 The NHS has been a powerful symbol of what service may mean to the point of death. As the current contagion passes over us, we see very clearly what matters in life. Those precious conversations with loved ones which may be the last; that last …
Wednesday in Holy Week, 8th April 2020 The path to Passover seems inexorable; we know it so well and we know that Judas has the chance to say ‘no’ to his temptation as much as Jesus has the chance to say ‘no’ to his. But the plot unfolds inexorably and …
