You’ve probably just come from Saint Savin-sur-Gartempe (ND August 2010), so the contrast of exteriors is striking. Just across the road from a Lanterne des Morts (ND November 2019), this church has a modest 11th c. nave, with simple W [...]
Andy Hawes Teaching Prayer I was amused to read in the introduction to Bede Frost’s book ‘The Art of Mental Prayer’ (published 1931) ‘ Some time ago an English diocesan Bishop addressed a questionnaire to his clergy in [...]
David Craven introduces Ladyewell House in Preston The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few. If as Catholics we are to have a future in the Church of England it is essential that we grow vocations, raising up [...]
Nicolas Stebbing introduces a Catholic St Paul We Catholics tend to be a bit suspicious of St Paul. After all it is was his ideas on justification that set Luther off and caused the Reformation. We prefer the Epistle [...]
Colin Podmore continues his exploration of Anglican doctrine of the Eucharist Always to the fore in Anglican discussion of the Eucharist in the mid-twentieth century was the sense in which the Eucharist is a sacrifice. A final rapprochement appeared [...]
Denis Desert reflects on a painting by Marc Chagall It so happened that many years ago as I finished my parish visiting for the day, suitably dressed in a cassock, I went over to view my allotment to check [...]
In the first of two articles Edward Dowler looks back at responses to the pandemic I’d like to start with two contrasting views of the direction in which the Church might now be heading. The first is from the [...]
Martin Warner asks what are we to say about the activity of God the Holy Spirit? Many Christians say that they have been brought to faith by the Holy Spirit through the attraction of gathering for worship in large [...]
Harri Williams on the enduring legacy of Father Patten The Revd Alfred Hope Patten was Inducted as Vicar of Walsingham on the 19th January 1921. As is traditional at an induction he rang the Church bell, and rather than [...]