The sacred week is now upon us, and we have some time to rehearse in our minds and in our worship, the mysteries of the death and...

Many people, maybe most people, spend their lives training, getting ready for a thing that may never happen, without getting ready for...

At last, the gloom is lifting! Three weeks of Lent, the darkness of the vestments and the tone of the hymns is changing slightly,...

As Father Paul is preaching in church today, I thought I’d write about money. That may well mean that you stop reading here, but if you...

It’s not very easy to have a mental picture of the Disciples, or the Gospel stories. I suppose I would set them in the only hot, dusty...

As we stand, possibly on the brink of war it is useful to remind ourselves that war is the ultimate arrogance, thinking that by violence...

In 1979 the John Le Carre novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was dramatised as a 7 part TV series, starring Sir Alec Guiness as George...

By the time you get this email, I will be in the Rat Inn in Annick, about to have my Sunday Lunch. It’s a lovely place, and if you, like...

‘Where are you going?’ And ‘what are you looking for’ – two questions that we are asked regularly in the Gospels – and after all the...

It was a year ago today, on the feast of the Epiphany, that I said my last Sunday Mass in my previous parish. I remained there for a few...