Dear All, We wish you a good finale to Lent today & great joy & peace as you celebrate Easter tomorrow & over the next weeks of Eastertide. The attachments straddle Holy Saturday & Easter. The blessing for this week is a Celtic blessing from ‘Light in our Darkness’ – we will pray it for…
Dear All, Palm Sunday: this special week begins. In some languages it is known as ‘the Good Week’ – we call it Holy Week. So many emotions come to the surface during this week – and we begin with a noisy procession – sometimes called ‘the Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem’ – this seems so unlike…
Dear All, Today is the Feast of the Annunciation – ‘Lady Day’ as it used to be known. Two of the attachments are related to the feast – the ‘Mother of Sorrows’ & the ‘Loving God, Maternal God’ – the other two remind us that we are in Lent – we repent of our insufficient…
We were honoured to welcome Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani, as part of our series of talks and discussions on the theme of listening, to share her insights and thoughts on the subject of LISTENING TO GOD. The talk took place at New Hall where a large group of old friends and new, students and staff, came…
Dear All, Perhaps the theme for today’s reflections in Lent will surprise you – hope! But our world needs it & so do we as part of that world. The news reminds us all the time about the continuing war between Russia & Ukraine, the situation in Turkey & Syria following the earthquake continues to…
Dear All, We are moving through Lent at a pace. I hope it is being a time of reflective peace for each of you. I find it difficult to keep the Lent focus with life presenting so much but hopefully we can re-focus again & again over these weeks. Tomorrow our Gospel reading is the…
Dear All, Again, a new month & we take steps nearer into the brighter, lighter part of the year. For many of us, maybe not all, this is very welcome! Lent is the obvious theme but yesterday was the annual Women’s World Day of Prayer so we will leave Lent till next week. Each year…
Dear All, We are in Lent again. We have tried to find positive thoughts for you as we begin the journey to Easter, remembering that ‘taking on’ something for Lent may bring us closer to God & to each other than ‘giving up’. We hope you will find joy on your way through Lent this…
Dear All, Hoping you are feeling well & peaceful as we move on through February & find Lent not far off. Tomorrow is nominated as ‘A Day for the Unemployed’. Our reflections are in some way related to work: a song of blessing for all kinds of work – mainly of the Arts, but we…
Dear All Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes so you will find a theme of healing in our reflections this week. So many of us need healing of one kind or another: it may be physical, but it may be healing of so many different wounds. Healing of memories is something many…