Posts from August 2025

Dearest friends, Next week lots of people from across the diocese will be heading to Walsingham for the annual pilgrimage of Our Lady of Walsingham. Walsingham holds a very special and very dear place in my heart. I head off to North Norfolk several times a year – sometimes just for the day – oftentimes for a few.  It is a ‘thin place’. What do I mean by that? Well, it’s a place that has been prayed in for such…

Dearest friends, Sometimes praying for one person to come to know Jesus is the most powerful prayer there is. This week we celebrate the life and work of St. Monica. She is one of the lesser know saints – which is a huge shame because the example of her life and her prayers are vital to our understanding of what being a christian is all about. She was born in Africa to a Christian family and married quite young to…

Dearest friends, A couple of weeks ago I was ensconced in Bath doing battle with the various Faculties both churches require. We were lucky enough to be invited to stay with some of Edmund’s friends who were joining him on a rowing week.  They’re a wonderful Christian family and one evening over dinner one of the boys passed a rather judgemental comment about one of the other lads on the rowing course. Quick as a flash his Dad said, ‘we…

Dearest friends, We have a few big pilgrimage events this summer. Sadly they’ve come very close together and are normally more spread out.  The first is the Glastonbury Pilgrimage on the 6th September. We’ll be heading there as a parish and aim to arrive in Glastonbury for 11am. We need to register / pay £11 per person which covers the Abbey admission fee. You can do this online or in person at either of the churches this / the coming…