Just beyond the east end of Buckfast Abbey—Devon’s active Benedictine monastery—lies the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Completed in 1966, this modern space is anchored by a striking stained glass window that towers over the sanctuary (an image of this is inside this window). The window was designed by Dom Charles Norris, a resident monk who became […]
Children’s Prayers A child’s world creates thoughts and wishes expressing beliefs, desires, questions and doubts. Wise, naïve, reverent or not, they are addressed to God with hope and trust: Dear God, I would like all the bad things to stop Are you real? Some people don’t believe it. If you are, you better do […]
Forest Bathing “Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord.” – Psalm 96:12–13 Walking in the woods is the perfect summer activity. We are fortunate to be surrounded by local parks and woodlands, which are at their most verdant at this time of year. Places to find refreshing […]
New Every Morning On Tuesday we commemorate John Keble in our calendar of Saints. Many of us will know him as a poet and author of some of our best loved hymns such as ‘New every morning is the love’ and ‘Blessed are the pure in heart’. But perhaps especially at this time we […]
Faith ‘The heart’, said St John Henry Newman, ‘is commonly reached not through the reason, but through the imagination.’ It was a comment he made in a letter to The Times after Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel had said in 1841, at the opening of the Reading Room in Tamworth in the Midlands, that […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
