Archives for January 2014

Epiphany Reading: Reflections on Light.

Saturday 11 January 2014

I am still mulling over the physical nature of the Incarnation but noticed another theme coming through my Internet reading, that of Light. Two post on the Quantum Theology blog drew my attention to begin with; one within the Octave of Christmas that had the feel of and one a much more down to earth […]

Celebrating with the Kings and the Popes!

Friday 10 January 2014

Sunday was the Chruch’s celebration of Epiphany, the time when the Magi arrive to bring the Christ child gifts that reveal to the world who he is. Fr Neil blessed chalk for us to take home. The intention for Mass was John and Valery Pope’s 42nd Wedding anniversary and they brought cake to help us […]

Epiphany Chalk

Sunday 5 January 2014

Epiphany chalk will be available at Mass today, along with a blessing to use when writing 20+C+B+M+14 on your lintel or next to your front door. After mass there will be traditional Epiphany cakes and we will also be celebrating John and Val Pope’s 42nd Wedding anniversary.

Hearing the Songs of the Holy Land.

Saturday 4 January 2014

On Christmas Eve evening, after listening to quite a lot of Micheal Franti I decided a change was needed to our ‘soundtrack.’ I wanted something a bit Christmassy but in the end I picked a Palestinian singer we had come across a few years ago at Greenbelt. What happened when I started to listen was […]

Encountering Life in the Incarnation.

Friday 3 January 2014

My thoughts about the Holy Family took me back a few days to the feast of St John the Apostle on 27th December. Time and again we see in John’s writing his struggle to put into words the experience he had of know Jesus. It comes in the prologue to his Gospel and again in […]

Small and Unseen

Wednesday 1 January 2014

While preparing our Christmas lunch on Christmas Eve, I listened to Fr Robert Barron’s reflection on Luke’s Nativity. He begins by describing Virgil’s Aeneid and how the story of Aeneas influenced the Emperors of Rome, particularly the Emperor of Jesus’ time Augustus. Fr Barron then goes on to explore how Luke uses the Power of […]