Native hunters in the jungles of Africa have a clever way of trapping monkeys. They take a coconut, hollow it out and in one half of the shell cut a hole just big enough for a monkey’s hand to pass through. Then they place an orange in the other coconut half before fastening together the […]
Today the Church honours St. Joseph who carried Jesus, led him by the hand, fed and clothed him and trained him at his carpenter’s bench as this 1847 painting by John Herbert illustrates. May 1 is International Workers’ Day celebrating workers’ achievements with street marches demanding fair pay and better working conditions. In 1955 St
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A little branch of the vine can bear an enormous cluster of grapes because it is a conduit of life giving sap. A little faithfulness to Christ in scripture and eucharist and prayer can be enormously vitalising if it expresses a desire to be rooted in absolute dependence upon Our Lord and undoubting confidence in
You have each found the love of your life and confirmed it today at the altar. Your love uplifts those in your circle, two lives, so creative, destined for union. A marriage of arts and science seeking truth together as Truth seeks you. Journeying together, from this day, seize the best future and no second
A day out in London from Haywards Heath station heading for Trafalgar Square via Charing Cross ‘Charing’ – a bend in the Thames near Westminster Abbey where Edward the First buried his Queen Eleanor. She died in Lincoln transported home with twelve overnight stops each marked by the King. Charing Cross, last stop, witnesses love
St John the Evangelist’s recently had its clocks refurbished. The church spire is very prominent in Burgess Hill and people look to it from all over to tell the time. I think of St John’s with its fast growing congregation as a spiritual lighthouse for the town having a membership so open to the Holy
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All prayer is a reaching of heart and soul into the outpouring of God’s love. Sometimes my prayer is like sunbathing, resting on Christ before the Father in the Spirit. Other times it’s more like being enfolded, my life being hidden with Christ with God. On occasion, as I centre myself on God, it’s like
On Easter Sunday we celebrated the rolling back of the stone of Christ’s tomb and his first appearance. The dynamic of Easter continues in today’s readings with disciples meeting the risen Lord on the move walking to Emmaus in the Gospel and a crippled man finding healing, ‘walking and jumping and praising God’ on the
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Abusing people for selfish satisfaction seems an unthinkable use of power but that’s what’s coming out at us, day by day, as episodes like the murder of Sarah Everard, rest her soul, are evaluated. Today at the start of Holy Week we get a window into what’s ultimately the case concerning the God of power
The weekday reading from the book of Daniel Chapter 3 has Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walking in a fiery furnace accompanied by a fourth man in the fire who ‘had the appearance of a son of god’. Christians are taught to read Scripture in the light of the coming of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. In
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