Intended for All Souls, Requiem Masses and times of praying for and memorial of the dead When mortal eyes at last shall dim, When mortal hearts shall cease, We shall entrust our souls to Thee, Sweet Jesu, prince of [...]
SOUTHEASE, SUSSEX Its little round tower makes Southease church look like an émigré from East Anglia, it is one of three such towers in Sussex. A charter of King Edgar in 966 gave Southease church to Newminster Abbey (Hyde [...]
Keep the Sabbath Day Holy Andy Hawes Having spent 30 years immersed in rural parishes where Sunday by Sunday I barrelled along country roads from one church to another, I now find myself driving into a market town [...]
Arthur Middleton returns to Bishop Cosin’s Collection of Private Devotions The Devotions ‘in the practice of the ancient Church, called the Hours of Prayer’ were published in 1627 and are in Cosin’s Works, Vol. ii, in the Library of [...]
Alan Smith considers future increases in the state pension age From an economic viewpoint, for most of us there are three stages of life. Up to the age of about 20, we are supported by our families, with grants [...]
Tom Sutcliffe considers the Irish Question What is nationalism? It may seem a simple question and perhaps in many countries it is just that. But in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland we have had over [...]
Ian McCormack considers vocation Thank you, Father, for the invitation to preach today. If I had been told, in the abstract, that I was to be given a pulpit and 30 minutes to speak—well, alright, 10 minutes—to speak about [...]
One of the satisfactory features about living in a leafy suburb (even in London) is the leaves. Our American cousins have it right when they call this season of autumn “the Fall.” Falling leaves and the turning of their colour [...]
Art Food Bigger than the plate V&A until 20 October Exhibitions are both a blessing and a curse for those galleries and museums which house a permanent collection. The blessing is that a successful exhibition will bring in [...]
Christopher Smith reflects on the Christian Mind News travels slowly to my little patch without the city wall. I have just discovered that Harry Blamires has died. Truth to tell, I was quite surprised to discover that he had [...]