Sermons

Here we come to the endings of the church’s year, having been led by a circuitous route through the Gospel of Mark and, as today, parts of the Gospel of John. Our OT reading at Mattins from Daniel, and the epistle reading just now from the beginning of the Apocalypse offer epic scenes. This is […]

“Day after day the priest offers the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.” So writes the author of Hebrews in today’s epistle. The Jewish people in the time of Jesus knew they were sinners; if they were good Jews they offered sacrifices in the temple to have their sins forgiven. Yet, as the […]

Dear Companions and Friends, I begin writing on 5th November. ‘Remember, remember…’ The month of November is all about remembering. Last week we celebrated the Magnificent feast of All Saints when we revel in the glory of that ‘great cloud of witnesses who share with God the bliss of eternal life  and comfort us with […]

Mark 10.46-52 Bartimaeus was a beggar.  What else could he do in Jericho now he was blind?  He couldn’t practice any craft.  Any job which required reading or writing was out of the question. Jericho was a good place to beg because of the constant flow of travellers up and down the steep, desert road […]

Dear all, A couple of weeks ago I said in my letter that I was about to begin to raise funds for Tariro – the charity organised by Fr Nicolas for deprived and orphaned teenagers in Zimbabwe. The object of the charity is to provide safe homes, education, employment, and medical and psychological care for […]

Dear Companion’s and Friends, I begin this letter on the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham – several months after the last one. When I wrote in July the auction, the Fun Day and the Festival weekend were just behind me and I was in General Chapter. I think that the Auction raised more than £27,000. […]

A LOT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, more than meets the eye, is dominated by exile or exiles. It’s not surprising that modern Israel is dominated by the Exile, subsequent ones and worse. No wonder modern Israelis say, “ Now we’ve got some of it back, let’s keep hold of our Zion and our Land, as […]

‘“Ephphatha!”’ in us! Jas. 2:1-10 [11.13] 14-17; Mark 7.24-37 May I speak in the name of the Son to the glory of the Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit.   ‘This is where the rubber meets the road.’  When my sister purchased the ‘Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit’ fitness DVD one night following a […]

On Wednesday, for the feast of St James, Oswin took us deep into those caves where the Wild Boars were trapped in the darkness without food or drink. He pointed us to Jesus’ question ‘What do you want?’ and remarked on its relation to the question we answer at profession, ‘What do you seek?’ – […]

Have you been making the most of the unusually long heat wave? The brothers CR have had a whole week of retreat punctuating our Chapter meetings, in which to enjoy the sunshine and get outdoors. This has been really welcome after a week of meetings and being inside. Our retreat this year is being conducted by the […]