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Lent

Happy Easter!

6 August 202012 April 2020

Easter greetings from our little corner of the globe. Well…what can I say? This Lent has been the Lentiest Lent …

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A Prayer for the beginning of Lent

6 August 20209 March 2019

Spirit of God, shine into my darkness. Help me to see and use your gifts in the time I have …

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Ash Wednesday

6 August 20206 March 2019

Ash Wednesday once more. Simplicity is all, so I’ll leave you with my   image of Psalm 51, made ten …

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Lent, grace and the shadow

6 August 20202 March 2019

It’s that time of year again. It hardly seems five minutes since we were packing away our Christmas crib, does …

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Good Friday: Agnus Dei

6 August 202030 March 2018

  So to Good Friday and a work which has inspired me  so much over the years: Faure’s Requiem; especially …

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Passion: Journeying Towards Holy Week

17 September 202022 March 2018

There are so many different definitions of Passion: a strong and barely controllable emotion; an intense, sexual love; an intense …

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Sounds of Silence – 2

6 August 20203 March 2018

  What does silence mean to you? I’ve been trying to tease out some of my own thoughts on this recently, inspired …

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Sounds of Silence

6 August 202024 February 2018

Silence is making-friends-with-time. It does not fight it or waste it, it refuses to run after it. Silence floats free …

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Ash Wednesday: Prodigal Son

6 August 202014 February 2018

Rembrandt: Return of The Prodigal Son,  Attribution: public domain via Wikimedia Commons   For Ash Wednesday:  here’s another ‘prayer monologue’ …

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Ash Wednesday: Psalm 51

6 August 202014 February 2018

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