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, [...]

Christopher Smith goes on a conference while staying at home   What’s a priest to do with a post-Easter break when we’re not allowed to go anywhere?  Well, as it happened, an email dropped into my inbox from my old [...]

There have in the last few weeks been glimmers of life returning to normal. Whilst the shadow of the pandemic seems still to be cast across the country shops and businesses are opening up and communities are beginning to regroup [...]