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; …
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 …
Eastertide Sunday 5C, 15th May 2022 Consulting with others before acting is always a wise thing to do. Sometimes this involves direct communication with another, sometimes that more indirect communication we call lectio – the reading of the scriptures, or the consulting with the Fathers, that is: the tradition of …
Eastertide Sunday 4C, 8th May 2022 When to stay; when to go? Paul and Barnabas are following closely in the footsteps of Christ – in the same dynamic of learning when to speak; when not to speak; what to say, what not to say, and its largely unscripted, though Paul …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
Lent Sunday 5C When Abbot, now Bishop, Erik Varden reflects on his initial conversion experience beginning with the sight of a homeless man on his own doorstep, he is so disturbed by his feelings of anger and resentment as a supposed Christian that he takes a walk around the block …
