Making Visible what is True
21 NOVEMBER 2021 YEAR B 2 Samuel 23:1-7Revelation 1:4b-8John 18.33-37 Fr Richard Browning Introduction: At 2.23am last Sunday morning, my youngest son Matthew was to be found among vandals, reeking … Read more
Reign of Christ
Reign of Christby Malcolm Guite Our King is calling from the hungry furrowsWhilst we are cruising through the aisles of plenty,Our hoardings screen us from the man of sorrows,Our soundtracks … Read more
What if hope and fear is the same thing?
1 Samuel 1.4-20 The Song of Hannah Hebrews 10.11-14, 19-25 Mark 13.1-11 ©Suzanne Grimmett What if hope and fear is the same thing? What if our desires, fixated as they … Read more
A story of nuns and nones
In the American Midwest there was a convent whose community had been steadily shrinking and whose prayers for new presenting novices appeared to be unanswered. One of the women religious … Read more
Giving isn’t meant to hurt
Mark 12.38-44 Hebrews 9:23-28 Sunday 7th November 2021 ©Suzanne Grimmett How do we decide what to give of ourselves? On what basis do we determine how we share from … Read more
Nothing is required
I have always thought that questions about our vocation in life are inextricably caught up with the idea of stewardship. We cannot think about who we are called to be … Read more
A Blessing for the Broken-hearted
©Suzanne Grimmett Jan Richardson in her poem, “Blessing for the Broken-hearted” writes… Let us agree for now that we will not say the breaking makes us stronger or that … Read more
I see dead people
©The Right Rev’d John Roundhill In the name of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit Amen. Midway through the 1999 blockbuster movie the Sixth Sense, a disturbed 9 … Read more
Halloween, All Saints and All Souls
In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died,and their departure was thought to be a disaster,and their going from us to be their destruction;but they are at … Read more
And still…Jesus saves
©Suzanne Grimmett Jesus, Saviour of the world… In the greatness of your mercy,loose us from our chains,forgive the sins of all your people.Make yourself known as our Saviour … Read more