A FREE Youth Resource Download for Pentecost
Whenever big feasts come around, catechists and youth ministers alike are often found scrabbling around the Internet at the last minute looking for liturgically-relevant resources for use with a youth...
View ArticleWith Him in the Waiting and the Feasting
Sunrise. This was the sun rising over the Thames early one wintry morning last week. Seeing the sun rise, and thinking of Jesus, the Radiant Dawn, who will soon come, scattering all our darkness, made...
View ArticleNo Longer a Slave but a Son: Living the New Year in the Father’s House
A while ago, I heard one of the best descriptions of what it is like to have God as our Father I have ever heard. I was reminded of it as my nephew ran,...
View Article“O Death, I will be your death”
The lifeless body of Jesus is pretty incomprehensible. Any lifeless body is incomprehensible, but Jesus’ is beyond the furthest reaches of our mind’s ability to understand. I’ve been thinking of the...
View ArticleAnyone need a Rescuer? Jesus is for you
I love today’s Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. I love it for many reasons… … I love it because God has crushed the power of hell forever. … I love it because...
View ArticleDo you have any room?
I don’t think I’ll forget Advent 2017 in a hurry. It’s been marked by some beautiful moments: a new baby, above all; an unforgettable nativity play; cooking and baking; cosy family time; deep sibling...
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Approaching the mountain, blazing with fire
I love the reading from Hebrews in the Office of Readings today. The author describes the awesome scene in Exodus 19 where Moses approaches Mount…
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Keep Your Hopes High
What I’ve loved about the liturgy towards the end of Advent is the often-repeated phrase, “Keep your hopes high!” Again and again, in the readings…
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Three Best Things of Lent
Holy Saturday and the light of Easter is just gleaming on the horizon. But this day of waiting is giving me a moment to look…
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With Jesus, in Lockdown
The time it really hit me was at the start of Mass on Maundy Thursday. A wave of emotion seemed to hit me as we…
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