Dear Friends, November begins, in the Church, with the great feast of All Saints, followed the next day by the Commemoration of All Souls. And then a bit further into November we have Remembrance. These, together with the evidence of the dying of the year which is there for us all to see, sets quite…
Dear Friends, Earlier this month we had a Week of Prayer for Prisoners & their Dependents. The focus in our attachments strays around direct reflection on prison but also touches on forgiveness and on an inner freedom that we all strive to reach. As we pray for those in prison, we also think of their…
Dear Friends, This weekend we have World Mission Day. Amongst the attachments is something Pope Francis has written on this subject stressing that the message that needs to be given is one of hope. The other attachments are around the subject of hope. Our blessing is from John Glynn’s ‘May the Lord Bless You’ and…
Dear Friends, Hoping that you are enjoying these strangely warm autumn days and finding the time to enjoy all that we are surrounded by. For some of us, maybe the spectre of winter approaching is a bit of a dread – meanwhile we wait to see how long it will be before we need to…
HOW FAR DO YOU GO: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS OF PROTEST AND DIRECT ACTION AS A LEGITIMATE EXPRESSION OF CHRISTIAN FAITH? Christians are called to stand up for the oppressed and to speak out against injustice. Protest, nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience are important parts of our Christian tradition that have strong Biblical…
We were hugely grateful to Megan Knowles from Jesuit Refugee Service, and to James, Michael, Florence and Basirat who shared their experiences as refugees seeking asylum in the UK. A moving and informative session which you can see or watch again below. TALK BY MEGAN KNOWLES (JRS) Are you curious about the different sides of…
Dear Friends, We began September with Creation & we are back there today as ‘The Season of Creation’ – an ecumenical initiative – comes to an end. I hope the autumn is being a rich time for you – there is so much to look at and to reflect on. Most of what we have…
Dear Friends, ‘The Fall’ – an Americanism for the season of autumn – but a very visual one – leaf-fall is so much a part of autumn. And the colours of those leaves before they fall surely strike us all. We will focus on this in today’s reflections, hoping that it will encourage us all…
Dear Friends, As always at this time of year there are many celebrations of Harvest. These attachments maybe enlarge our idea of harvest – so many different harvests go on on so many different levels – and then there are the effects of a poor harvest on the land & the causes of this in…
Dear Friends, Tomorrow we are celebrating ‘Evangelii Gaudium’ Day – The Joy of the Gospel – This is an exhortation written by Pope Francis in 2013. We are including a bit of a summary of it in case it has passed anyone by. It is an inspiring document & easily found on the internet. At…