A retired teacher offers some reflections I was extremely pleased and relieved to read the article – We need to talk about Safeguarding in the April edition of New Directions. I am a church warden and responsible for Safeguarding [...]
Edward Dowler reflects on the simplicity of Mary’s ‘Yes!’ A few years ago I went with a friend to the monastery of San Marco in Florence. I was struck by the fact that in the very simple cells in [...]
Mystical Rose and Gate of Heaven Intended for the any feast of Our Blessed Lady and May Devotions Mystical Rose and Gate of Heaven, Refuge of sinners here below, Who, for thy children here, hath striv’n To pour [...]
ALL SAINTS’, GAUTBY, LINCS Probably the least-appreciated of all the English counties, Lincolnshire is full of empty spaces, and the hamlet of Gautby is in one of those, beyond Bardney. Here in the mid-18th century the Vyners, a prominent [...]
Arthur Middleton on ‘Personal Devotion’ The Flame of Prayerful Living This is the famous stone That tumeth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for lesse be told . George Herbert Being Blind [...]
John Gayford takes a peep into its Mystery It may be a Biblical hyperbole when St. Jerome said of the Book of Revelation that it has as many secrets as words. Even so to claim we know the full [...]
Michael Talbot considers political memoirs and ideas One of the strange delights of lockdown has been the ability to almost simultaneously attend multiple book launches and gallery ‘openings’ from the comfort of one’s home. I say delights, but what [...]
Richard Norman reflects on the path to holiness ‘it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace’ Each Mass ends with an instruction: Go forth / Ite, missa est. Our churches are, [...]
A reader responds to last month’s article I am writing in response to the wonderful article ‘We need to talk about Safeguarding’ in your April 2021 edition. As I read it my heart lifted because here was someone who [...]
Exhibitions after lockdown Commercial art galleries opened the 12th April and museums and public galleries are (at the time of writing) likely open from 17th May. So, what’s on exhibition-wise? Something of a patchwork across the country. Pallant House, [...]