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What is Trinity Sunday? It is the day on which the church proclaims the doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is appropriate to celebrate this soon after the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit appeared to his...

What is Pentecost?  It is the day on which we celebrate the disciples were ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’ in front of a large crowd which had gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the festival of Pentecost. Jesus had promised that this would happen: ‘I have said these...

What is Ascension Day? This is, to many, a rather puzzling celebration! Jesus ascending to heaven in clouds of glory is difficult to fit into the patterns of our experience. There are, of course, wonderful paintings of the scene – see, for example, the Rembrandt’s...

(Also known as Low Sunday) The name Low Sunday has no theological implications. It simply means, as it were, back to normal. after all the events we remembered a week ago. We can pause, however, to reflect on one of the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus.  ...

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! In the words of one of the Eucharistic prayers ‘He offered his life for sinners and with a love stronger than death he opened wide his arms on the cross’. His love was indeed ‘stronger than death’. His body was not found in the...

(Also known as Palm Sunday) Today is known as Palm Sunday because of what happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem on his way to celebrate the important Jewish festival of Passover. You can read more about Passover at:...

LENT is our time to repent, reflect, open our hearts a little wider and understand our Lord a little more deeply, so that when Good Friday and Easter come, we have the opportunity to receive overflowing grace from God.  This year we shall be doing these things within...

(Also known as Passion Sunday) This is the day on which many churches have traditionally turned their thoughts to the suffering of Jesus. The word ‘passion’ comes from a Latin word meaning to suffer. If you are ‘compassionate’, you suffer alongside (with) someone. We...

(Also known as Mothering Sunday) Mothering Sunday was originally a day on which Christian families would come to worship in their ‘mother church’, typically either the church in which they had been baptised or the main church or cathedral of the area. In the course of...

Our prayer last week concerned ‘staying on the path of God’s love’. What does this mean? We know Christ’s teaching on the importance of love:   One of [the Pharisees], a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the...