St Oswald Detail from a window in Newcastle Cathedral. This image was first published on Flickr. Original image by Fr Lawrence Lew, O. P.. Uploaded by Ibolya Horváth, published on 24 April 2017. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. August 5th is the feast day of St. […]
Imperfection There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in These are two lines from a poem and song called ‘Anthem’ by the Canadian poet, rockstar and Jewish scholar Leonard Cohen. Cohen draws on the Kabbala, an ancient Jewish mystical tradition known as the ‘Breaking of the Vessels’: In the […]
Lay Ministry The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ. Ephesians 4.11–13 A couple of months ago I bumped into someone from St Stephen’s when I was on […]
St Swithin St Swithin’s Day, if it does rain Full forty days, it will remain St Swithin’s Day, if it be fair For forty days, t’will rain no mair St Swithin was a ninth century Anglo-Saxon saint, at the peak of his clerical career he was Bishop of Winchester and in the cathedral at […]
‘Looking for God………..’ After exploring a church in Italy, my 5-year-old granddaughter declared, ‘But we didn’t see God!’ Likewise, the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees in his explorations of the stars, revealed he had never come across God. So, what were they expecting to see? I imagine Mila envisioned a human version of God […]
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