There is so much to say about Baptism that there are not enough books in the world to carry them. No amount to Baptism Preparation, I find, ever fully captures all that needs to be said about the Mystery of Baptism. Baptismal teaching should also therefore be at the heart of each celebration of the…
For all those ordained to the sacred priesthood this Petertide, humbling words from Dom Gregory Dix from The Shape of the Liturgy Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivable human circumstance,…
This morning the Postman woke me up as he does each Saturday morning with an early delivery. There is another time and another place to whinge about my one lie-in and why the Postman waits until the afternoon five days a week to post, but that today is not what put me in a bad…
I saw this wonderful Wordpress theme recently, and so I thought "I'll have a go with that" as the cool and classy themes for this blog never really capture the manic force of nature that is me. Oh, and I get so easily bored: there is so much of God's creation that is out there,…
Text: Matthew 10:37-42 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We’ll begin with an illustration: A homeless man is begging on the streets of London. As usual he is being ignored by all who pass him by. A well-dressed man in a stretch limo pulls up…
Just found these wonderful words in a notebook. Does anyone know where they are from? "We are not ordaining you to ministry; that happened at your baptism. We are not ordaining you to serve the Church in committees, activities, organisation; that is already implied in your membership. We are not ordaining you to become involved…
In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. A small boy had just come back from Church, where he had received, I have no doubt, some fine teaching at Sunday School. He started quizzing his mother on where God was to be found: “Is he in heaven”…
I often speak about the need to serve the community, to become embedded and known in the schools, in the pub and on the street corners. One key area of that ministry is in our local schools: in our case, Elson Infant and Elson Junior Schools. Neither of these are Church Schools, so we have…
h/t Fr. Robb at Changing Worship So the next time they start banging on about Marriage as conceived by the Bible, here is a handy reference. This is the danger, I believe, of mistaking the cultural context of those books with the Word of God contained therein: get them confused and all kinds…
