Some reflections from you people on joining in the Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage @ Home 2020 hasn’t been the best of years. School was cancelled, clubs were cancelled, shops were closed. Nearly everything stopped, but not our faith. And then the [...]
Jonathan Baker considers the importance of place Today we are celebrating the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of this church. It’s not a ‘big’ anniversary, a number like 100 or 125 or 150, but I would venture [...]
A Lawyer in Zimbabwe writes about the situation there Covid-19 has been slow making an impact in Zimbabwe but has recently started multiplying. Lockdown restrictions may be necessary to stop the virus but it has brought great hardship and hunger [...]
Clare Williams asks what can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic about ministry with children and young people? Children and young people being made welcome as part of regular worship would be widely acknowledged as one of the key indicators [...]
The parish of St George, Bickley came up with a creative way to celebrate the liturgy in lockdown, this Corpus Christi, Thursday 11 June. The challenge was how to bring together more than three dozen worshippers in the same place, [...]
SS JUST ET PASTEUR, VALCABRÈRE, FRANCE The church occupies a stunning location, its churchyard planted with cypresses, set against a backdrop of the Pyrenees and the cathedral of S. Bertrand de Comminges (ND June 2012). The site was a paléochristian [...]
Kevin Cable on moving to Jaffa The Middle East has seen a rapid decline in the number of Christians in recent years. Yet in Jaffa in Israel, St Peter’s Anglican Church is ready to be reborn, for resurrection to take [...]
Arthur Middleton on Defending orthodoxy I spent Lent with John Chrysostom, whom Lancelot Andrewes emulated in his preaching, and William Laud. Both were resolute defenders of the integrity of the Catholic Faith, the golden mouthed against going down the Arian [...]
Thurifer offers some light relief Ars est celare artem. The origin of this Latin maxim is unclear. Ovid and Quintillian said something similar, not so epigrammatically. An example of the art that conceals art is Anne Glenconner’s book, “Lady in [...]
Poses is a small village on the south bank of the Seine, upriver of Rouen. Its church is dedicated to Saint Quentin, believed to be a martyr around 303 at the place now known as S. Quentin (Aisne), who is [...]