Dear Companions and friends, I begin my chaplain’s letter on the feast of St Nicolas – 6th December. This is one of those early warning signals that the great Feast of the Incarnation on 25th is on its way. By then Nicolas will have combed his beard, donned his red robe and hitched up the […]
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Gift Voucher
Gift Voucher – Give the gift of a retreat! Would you like to give a gift that will: give someone time and space to reflect on their journey with God? encourage a busy friend to take time out from the usual routine? provide the opportunity for someone to experience a retreat for the first time? […]
Fr John’s Sponsored 10k Run – update
Billy Whizz is the fastest boy on earth (according to the Beano). We are not planning to run to Harare and back on 26th January but John CR and Shavaun and other students of the College of the Resurrection will run 10k. Why? Because running is good for you and because we want to support […]
College sleep out
Every night, an estimated number of 4,751 people are sleeping rough across England, a rise of 169% since 2010. In response to the great need of homeless people, almost 1,000 groups have taken the ‘Advent Sleepout Challenge’ over the last three years. www.sleepoutchallenge.org.uk/about This year, a group of students of the College of the Resurrection […]
“Are you the King of the Jews?”
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 […]
Sermon preached at St. Paul’s Parish, K Street, Washington
“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 […]
CLARC Conference Mirfield
Every year the monks, friars and sisters of the Church of England who have oversight of their religious communities gather for fellowship and reflection together on matters of mutual concern. In recent years this has been at Mirfield. And so we had the ‘Leaders’ Meeting’ at CR 8th-12th October, the first I’ve attended. The matters […]
Sixty Years a Priest
On St Matthew’s Day in 1958 I was ordained priest in Lichfield Cathedral, and on September 22 2018 I presided at a Mass of thanksgiving in St Mary’s Church, Kenton. This brought together a congregation of people I had worked with over the 60 years. There were gaps (for I have lost contact with my […]
Fr John’s Sponsored 10k Run
‘Run the straight race, through God’s good grace’ A couple of weeks ago I said that I was about to begin to raise funds for Tariro – the charity supported 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 […]