The 15th August is one of the most important days in the Catholic and Orthodox Calendars. It is a celebration of Mary, Mother of Jesus,...

Merton realized that so many people are weighed down by deep hurts, anger, resentment, lost loves, broken relationships, desperately...

... has become over the years a favourite "read" of mine - a saint without the handle of "saint", a Christian who tried to live the best...

Time is our most precious commodity. Our clocks run from birth to death, during times of joy and sorrow, work and play: business and...

Last Sunday, Trinity Sunday, at Holy Trinity Winchester, we looked in detail at the world-famous Trinity icon, written by Andrei Rublev,...

“GOD’S SELFIE” is how someone described Andrei Rublev’s “Trinity”. It’s one of the most-viewed icons, with a Trinitarian interpretation...

TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE VISITATION OF MARY TO ELIZABETH MAGNIFICAT 1 Our souls magnify the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our...

If I had to choose one saint to pray for me, to look out for me, and to help me not to take myself too seriously, who showed the humorous...

Back in the Dark Ages, in my home Church were some little purple Lent boxes with a slot for money, inviting donations for “The Church of...

May 13th, 1917. It was a quiet, ordinary day for three ordinary shepherd children in a quiet, ordinary, insignificant village in rural...

A short reflection, as from Peter's perspective on the night Jesus was betrayed by Judas and denied by Peter. Peter: Last night, it...

Mary of Nazareth, daughter of Joachim and Anna; her name was common enough, that other women of the same name in the gospels had to be...

Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez was born in a small village in El Salvador in 1917. Ordained priest, he was known as a quiet and...

The Sculptor, Jacob Epstein, was commissioned in 1957 to create a statue of St. Michael the Archangel for the newly rebuilt Coventry...

JESUS WAS RAISED A JEW BY DEVOUT JEWISH PARENTS He was circumcised according to the Law (The Torah) on the eighth day after his birth...

JESUS, THE RADICAL RABBI FROM NAZARETH So Jesus wasn’t white, blond, and blue-eyed then!. But surely he looked like Robert Powell’s...

Forty days alone, a wilderness of thoughts, tempting and inviting thoughts, which could so easily have distracted you from your task,...

For those of you who like statistics, Satan appears 27 times in nine Old Testament books. Who is Satan? The theologian N. T. Wright...

At one time it was accepted that, if you were asked to give a job reference for someone, only the interviewing panel would read what you...

“I, Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle, together with brother Sosthenes, send greetings to the church of God in Corinth.” Last...