Reflections

Here’s our reading from today’s communion service, thinking about All Saints Day… Jesus told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt:  ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray,…

This is the reflection from today’s Communion service at Park. I didn’t know at the time that Liz Truss had resigned… We began with this reading: Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath…

Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills; from where is my help to come? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. He will not suffer your foot to stumble; he who watches over you will…

This week we were thinking about St Francis, with this reading: At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little…

Jesus taught his disciples, saying: “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled…

These weeks leading up to the end of the academic year have a poignancy about them for us as chaplains. We have some students who seek us out to say goodbye after their one, three, or more years here. And…

Today we’re reflecting on this encounter between Moses and God… Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There…

You know you’re getting old when you remember the person coming to give the annual Michael Perham Cathedral and University Lecture as a young girl hanging their legs out of the window in the house across the street… We’re delighted…

Last Sunday our church was celebrating our patron Saints, St. Philip and St James, and it reminded me of this reading: Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who…