17th Sunday-Stumbling onto your Treasure

25 Jul 202016 Aug 2020

Matthew 13:44-52, Romans 8:28-30 St Josephine Bakhita, portrait Josephine Bakhita was born in 1869 in Dafur, Sudan, with three brothers and three sisters. She was loved by her family and…

17th Sunday – The Treasure and Pearl

25 Jul 20209 Aug 2020

These two parables sound very similar to begin with. Finding a treasure, finding a pearl, rejoicing and selling everything to buy it. But did you notice? – they’re not identical,…

16th Sunday – Awake to God’s Life

19 Jul 20202 Aug 2020

Matthew 13:24-43, Romans 8:26-27 The Sower, Vincent van Gogh We are presented with three parables in our gospel today. I want to reflect only on the first of the parables,…

15th Sunday (Part 2) – Listening to the Sower with St Benedict

12 Jul 202012 Aug 2020

St Benedict, by Fra Angelico Isaiah 55:10-11, Matthew 13:1-23 There are few people, to whom a greater debt is owed by Western civilisation collectively than St Benedict, whose feast we…

15th Sunday (part 1) – To See and not Perceive

11 Jul 202025 Jul 2020

Isaiah by Michael Angelo, Sistine Chapel Isaiah 55:10-11, Matthew 13:1-23 A friend of mine always went to watch some of the most mind-twisting and complex, even disconcerting plots that came…

14th Sunday – The State of Profound Rest

5 Jul 20207 Oct 2020

Giotto, Entry into Jerusalem Zechariah 9:9-10, Matthew 11:25-30 What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘rest’? Maybe having been stuck at home all through the lockdown, you’re…