Next Before Advent: Father Gethin
Today is sometimes called ‘Stir Up Sunday’, because of the wonderful opening line from our collect: ‘stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people.’ We pray, in other words, for zeal…
Read moreCelebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
Today is sometimes called ‘Stir Up Sunday’, because of the wonderful opening line from our collect: ‘stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people.’ We pray, in other words, for zeal…
Read moreThe second coming of Jesus Christ is meant to fill us not with anxiety, but finally with hope. But we must heed all of Jesus’ warnings, and especially that which is given to us today…
Read moreWe who were once lost and blind are made the cause of thanks and prayers in our fellow-Christians, who find in our faith, bearing its fruit in love, encouragement for their own spiritual journey.
Read moreWe note how often this reversal of the order of contagion occurs in Jesus’ healing miracles. We assume that when a well person comes into contact with a sick person, the contagious disease passes from the sick to the well. But here the opposite occurs.
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