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 …
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; …
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 …
