Posted: 18 August 2020
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Posted: 18 August 2020
Good morning. I hope you’re well and safe. I managed to get a little fresh air yesterday and enjoy some greenery, trees and fields and mud.
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Posted: 17 August 2020
Good morning - it’s good to be reminded that we live in Manchester - cold and wet August!
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Posted: 15 August 2020
Good morning - Happy Feast Day - an extra scoop of ice cream today, or an extra slice in your G&T. One of Our Lady’s traditional titles is ‘Queen of Peace’ and, Lord knows, we need her intercession more than ever these days.
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Posted: 14 August 2020
The Prophet Micah was one of the minor prophets, active around 720 BC. Like other prophets he foresaw the destruction of Jerusalem and the scattering of Israel because of their infidelity
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Posted: 13 August 2020
Good morning. I thought that today we might reflect on Pope Francis’ teaching on the current crises facing humankind. (From ICN)
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Posted: 12 August 2020
Yesterday’s feast of St Clare and today’s of St Jane Frances de Chantal got me thinking about the role of women with the Church.
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Posted: 11 August 2020
I came across a lovely little poem which helps one to put these strange times into a brighter context:
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Posted: 10 August 2020
Trying to understand the love of God is a lifetime's journey. How is it that the God who creates, calls into being, the great wonder which is our remarkable world can love each one of us - simply, uniquely and wholeheartedly?
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Posted: 09 August 2020
Good morning I hope you’re well and staying safe - please continue to wear face masks whenever necessary
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Posted: 08 August 2020
It’s in weather like this that one must surely turn to Gerard Manley Hopkins; his poem ‘Pied Beauty’ is so evocative of the wonders of God’s creation and our share in it.
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Posted: 07 August 2020
Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 16: 24 - 28 when Jesus says to his disciples, ‘If any one wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me’.
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