This is amazing
I was looking for something on YouTube and then, as can all too easily happen, I found myself wandering down a path of video clips that I’d never heard of.…
Reflections
Reminded of this
During the week, I had a “touch of flu”!! I’m trying to make little of it but it was, of course, that awful strain known as the “Man Flu”:) I…
The wise still seek him
As we come to the last day of the Christmas Season, I believe there is something being said to us about arriving and beginning when others might all too easily…
Words unfinished …
I was telling them at Mass today that I went to bed last night feeling a bit mad with myself – disappointed, I suppose. I had a Funeral and Wedding…
Best wishes to you all
As we continue through the Christmas days and in the lead-up to New Year’s Day, may I wish you one and all every blessing, good health and happiness as we…
Tinsel and tenderness
He was found dead. People spoke with genuine sorrow and more than a little regret. He kept to himself. He’d moved from England. He used sit on a park bench…
Here comes that rainbow
As I was walking to the church this morning for Mass – alas, close enough to the last minute, my breath was taken away by a wonderful rainbow that seemed…
Kitchen Prayers
This piece is from “Let Advent Be Advent”, published by Messenger Publications in 2017. Kitchens are great places! So much family life is lived there. There may be better furnished…
A room with a view
She had mentioned it to him before but for some reason brought it up again: “You really should clean out the shed.” He agreed and said he had been putting…
Sorry for your trouble
This evening we had our annual Remembrance Service for those who died in the parish in the past twelve months and whose funerals were celebrated in our four churches. We…