Hope
December 2019 Some years ago – in 2008 I had the wonderful opportunity of working in a Parish in Malta. I took some Long Service Leave, and for two mo [...]
The reign of Christ
This Sunday marks the end of our Christian Year, but we don’t have parties as we do on New Year’s Eve, in fact it goes past hardly noticed. After all [...]
Love – Gift and Choice
This Sunday we will celebrate and give thanks to God for the people we are closest to in our lives, our partners. I have always been struck by that pa [...]
God seeks the lost
Luke’s story of the prodigal son, coming as it does in the very middle of the Gospel, and at the end of three stories about loss, is central to the me [...]
Life-giving Sabbath
It’s a long time since I thought of Jesus as the old children’s hymn puts it: Gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon a little child pity my simplicity, [...]
Jesus notices people – and reaches out to help
Its so easy to miss things, and I don’t just mean missing your car keys and looking everywhere for them. I mean not noticing people, or not taking not [...]
God’s community
When I became a parent my understanding of what ‘family’ means shifted a gear or two. As a child I took my family for granted, but when I began to hav [...]
God’s Generosity
Our Gospel reading today begins with a family dispute over inheritance. So often the fights we have revolve around money – whether that be in our home [...]