5th Sunday – The Prayer of the Heart

21 Mar 20214 Apr 2021

An icon of the Desert Fathers Jer 31:31-34 This Word we have received today from Jeremiah, could well claim to be summary of all of the Hebrew Scriptures. Here you…

2nd Sunday – To Hear, to Seek, to Speak, to Become (Part 2)

16 Jan 20216 Feb 2021

St John the Evangelist, Carlo Dolci John 1:35-42, 1 Sam 3:3-19 We spoke of the first two movements in the last account of the disciples encountering Jesus for the first…

19th Sunday- Elijah and Lessons in the Spiritual Life

9 Aug 202030 Aug 2020

1 Kings 19:9-13 If you’ve trained for a marathon or even otherwise, you might be familiar with the phrase ‘hitting the wall’. It’s the point where the body of the…

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…

The Annunciation – The Burden of Mary

25 Mar 20209 Apr 2020

One of the most painful experiences in life is to carry the burden of unanswered prayer. Such prayer, arises from the depth of one’s heart and is not dismissed easily,…