Ash Wednesday with Hopkins
The ‘justice’ of our Lord may forever remain a mystery in human terms, but God initiates a relationship with Him which has space wide.....
What Can Hold Us Steady?
‘To be able to see, hear, and attend to that within us which is there in the darkness and the silence.’ Markings, Dag Hammarskjöld. The...
Rejoice! Laetare Sunday
Reflection for Sunday 19th March, 2023 I’ve just finished reading the novel Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. It narrates the slow ruin...
Ash Wednesday
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears The deceitful face of hope and despair. TS Eliot, Ash Wednesday Stepping out of our...
'And to one God says....': a reading and reflection on the poem 'Mediations' by R.S.Thomas
Mediations by R.S.Thomas And to one God says: Come to me by numbers and figures : see my beauty in the angles between stars, in the...
'A single dead prawn': A reading and reflection on the poem 'At the End' by R.S.Thomas
At the End by R.S.Thomas Few possessions: a chair, a table, a bed to say my prayers by, and, gathered from the shore, the bone-like,...