Dear All, Over the last weeks I have often been struck by the psalms in our liturgies so that is where our focus is this week. You can find psalms to match almost every human mood, to match every longing we have. We have chosen three psalms – very difficult to make choices but…
Dear All, Sunday is the World Day for Grandparents & Older People. We hope those of you receiving this who are not in that age group will not be offended by the focus of this week’s reflections but will find in them something to store away for the future! For those of us who are…
Dear All, Forgiveness & Healing are, I think, perennials, in that we are never done with them & so we come back to them again & again. However, maybe by choosing different reflections, we get new perspectives on them. I hope so. There are a couple of pieces written by the gifted Joyce Rupp &…
Dear All, We hope you have had a good week with much of the peace & joy we reflected on last weekend. This weekend we have the Parable of the Good Samaritan so our readings are in & around that theme. It is a very familiar story, maybe too familiar, so it is good to…
Dear All, Here we are in July. We hope you are able to look forward to relaxed & happy days. Our reflections today pick up on the thread of peace that runs through the readings chosen by the Church for Sunday & also the psalmist’s song of joy. Hopefully they may bring you peace if…
Dear All, Another week into summer so we thought a few ‘summery’ reflections could be good after all the big feasts etc. And our blessing today is ‘Deep Peace’, a Gaelic blessing from ‘Libera Peace’. We hope you enjoy it. I will pray it very specially for anyone amongst us who is greatly in need…
Dear All, Another big feast for us this weekend, that of Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Body & Blood of Christ. The Gospel chosen for Sunday’s Eucharist (Lk 9. 11-17) is an account of the miracle of that five loaves of bread & the two fish being more than enough to feed the five…
Dear All, At this stage of the year we roll from one big feast to another & this weekend we have the feast of the Trinity. In fact this feast is very much a continuation of Pentecost & there is so great a wealth of reflections on the Spirit that we are going to continue…
Dear All, Jubilee Weekend & Pentecost!! We hope you are enjoying some kind of celebration. Let us pray with urgency, ‘Send forth your spirit, O Lord, & renew the face of the earth’. We can all, I’m sure, think of situations – ones that are close to home & ones that are further away that…
Dear All, We are coming to the end of Eastertide – we can look back to Easter & wonder whether it has made a difference in our lives. I don’t think it is often a big bang moment for many of us but I like the expression ‘Eastering’ – it implies that this is a…