Sunday 2C, 16th January 2022 there is no ordinary time. For those with the eyes and ears and every other sense – summed up in the word spiritual perhaps – to see it. Every day and time is extraordinary but it takes time for this to unfold and become our …
The Baptism of the Lord, 9th January 2022 Nothing is as it seems, or so it seems. In Luke’s account of Jesus’ baptism there is no dialogue between Jesus and John and the revelation of who he is seems a very private matter for Jesus alone for later John sends …
Second Sunday after Christmas, 2nd January 2022 Wisdom is elusive, easily lost. This is the story of Israel, of Jerusalem, of humankind and the story too of Jesus. God’s spirit has been at work throughout but our history is one of evasion, of hiding from wisdom’s truths, of observing them …
Feast of the Holy Family, Sunday 26th December 2021 Reality is where you place your attention That’s a quote worth pondering on from Dom Lawrence Freeman, as is the following as he wanders around the exhibits at the recent Cop26 conference in Glasgow: I listened to a presentation at a …
Advent Sunday 4C, 19th December 2021 There’s a rumour going around that all Brother John is interested in is bird-watching – now there’s some truth in this which could get me into trouble with my ecclesiastical superiors especially as, in the seventh chapter of the Rule of St Benedict, it …
Advent Sunday 3C, 12th December 2021 When Hitler was playing cat and mouse with the Christians of the Third Reich in the 1930s he had great success at first partly because he knew exactly how to play on their fears and hopes and divided loyalties and partly because Christianity itself …
Advent Sunday 2C, 5th December 2021 We were privileged last night to have a three year old and a five year old and a hundred year old all together in the same room – you can imagine how noisy that was, especially from the hundred year old, with all three …
Advent Sunday 1C, 28th November 2021 Dante has a special place in hell for the deceitful or intellectually dishonest – though he seems to have a special place in hell for everyone – and among these was, and perhaps is, Guido da Montefeltro who was asked by Pope Boniface VIII …
Solemnity of Christ the King, 21st November 2021 It’s easy to be divisive; it’s what human beings do; it’s what we’re good at – taking things apart, taking others apart whether individually or collectively, as peoples or nation-states. It’s much harder to be one or, better, to realise our potential …
Sunday 33B, 14th November 2021 We live and die by the moment – we may imagine life simply goes on, and on, and on and what we have to hold on to is this continual flow of never-ending life, characterised by pleasure, if possible, good health, surrounded by those we …
