Reflections

Jesus called the disciples together and said: You know that those foreigners who call themselves kings like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over the people they rule. But don’t act like them. If you…

Then Jesus said to the disciples, Be ready for whatever comes, dressed for action and with your lamps lit, like servants who are waiting for their master to come back from a wedding feast. When he comes and knocks, they…

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately…

Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food…

Do you know what the first word is that God says in the Bible? God says Let – ‘Let there be light’. And that’s not the only let in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. Here are some…

This is an article I’ve written for the Gloucester Citizen Do you like silence? Or do you avoid it? I’ve just been on a 3 Day silent retreat. It was in a beautiful centre in North Wales – the place…

This is the reading for the Feast Day of St Barnabas: Some of the believers who were scattered by the persecution which took place when Stephen was killed went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the message to…

We have a long reading today – but it’s a good one! When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind…

Then Jesus opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later, and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of…