Easter Vigil – Christ our Rock

5 Apr 2021

I’ve been enjoying this glorious sun this past couple of days. It’s a dramatic ray of hope in the middle of winter! Sometimes you need a few months of darkness…

5th Sunday – The Gift (and curse) of Work

6 Feb 202127 Feb 2021

Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour Job 7:1-7, Mark 1:29-39 We have a word that seems very relevant for the time we are living through in this pandemic. Job…

3rd Sunday – Call Me Jonah (How to defy God)

23 Jan 202123 Feb 2021

Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah 3:1-10 We hear this Sunday from the hilarious (yet profound!) book of the prophet Jonah. This is the only Sunday of the three-year…

Feast of the Baptism – One with Us

10 Jan 202116 Jan 2021

Do you remember Jacob’s ladder, with the angels ascending and descending? Throughout the Christmas season we have contemplated how God came down that ladder to our world, how he came…

Christmas – The Wonderful Exchange

25 Dec 202026 Dec 2020

Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerard van Honthorst Isaiah 9:1-7, Luke 2:1-14 At the heart of Christianity, the story of our salvation, is what the Fathers called the admirabile commercium (the ‘great’, ‘wonderful’…

3rd Sunday – Year of the Lord’s Favour

13 Dec 20203 Jan 2021

Isaiah 61:1-11, John 1:6-8,19-28 What would you do, once things return to normal - whatever normal might be when this ends? Have you thought - am sure you have -…

2nd Sunday – Perfect Sacrifice

19 Jan 20203 Apr 2020

Isaiah 49:3-6, John 1:29-34 If you ever find yourself in the city of Ghent, in Belgium, you should go to St Bavo’s Cathedral to see the display of the Flemish…