Sunday 24B, 12th September 2021 Isn’t it interesting that who we are depends on what other people make of us? Surely, we say to ourselves, who I am depends on me; it’s my business – something to be worked out between me and myself, or for those of a religious …
Sunday 23B, 5th September 2021 Most of us, for much of the time, are deaf to one another, and to ourselves, and so to God who mediates his love, his presence, through each one of us and, indeed, all creation. We’re not present to one another in many ways: that …
Sunday 22B, 29th August 2021 All life is selective. We may dream, when young, that the world is at our feet or the world is our oyster, waiting to be explored or used in a multitude of ways, all of which remain forever at our service. But then we have …
Sunday 21B, 22nd August, 2021 These are difficult texts – all of them: they cut at the heart of our present largely Western project of liberal imperialism– that is, the gradual evacuation of spiritual meaning from our understanding of ourselves as human beings and, perhaps, it’s this lack of spiritual …
The Assumption of Our Lady, 15th August 2021 Within the great counter-narrative of Christ is the counter-narrative of Mary and, within both, one might say, is the great counter-narrative of us as human beings destined for God, made for God, that is, made for God by God, stamped with God’s …
Sunday 19B, 8th August 2021 Friendship is a little easier now, without masks – allowing for all the intricacies of human communication, mostly non -verbal: opening the door to strangers, offering them a cup of tea, letting them enjoy the garden. We had a visit yesterday from parishioners of All …
Sunday 18B, 1st August 2021 We are beginning to circle around the meaning of the eucharist. On one side of my desk, as I think I’ve said before, I have an article entitled ‘What are you doing up there?’ which can be read in many different ways, and on the …
Sunday 17B, 25th July 2021 My theology is a bit rusty nowadays, but I remember a maxim which went vaguely like this: the Church makes the eucharist and the eucharist makes the Church – or was it the other way round? And does it matter? I’ve always taken this to …
Sunday 16B, 18th July 2021 In the cool of this church we find rest from the heat. We’ve just heard one of our most oft quoted psalms – The Lord is My Shepherd – with ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deep darkness (or death) …
Solemnity of Saint Benedict, 11th July 2021 We are always people of our time. It’s not possible to exist in any other. And time changes us and we change time. This thought was prompted by a page from the Daily Mail discovered recently in the house of a neighbour, Dawn …
