Posts from September 2025

Dearest friends, When I arrived, just about 18 months ago, I wanted to take time to get to know people, get to know the parishes, and start to understand what the Holy Spirit was calling us to over the coming years. I wanted to spend time listening to the Holy Spirit and feeling my way forward as slowly as I could.  I think we’ve now reached a time where we can start to plan out the next 10 years together.…

Dearest friends, Next Sunday we celebrate the great feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. John Calvin once said that if you added up all the genuine relics of the True Cross you’d have enough to fill a ship. People have always laughed at those of us ‘stupid’ enough to sit and pray in front of so-called relics of the True Cross (there is one in Walsingham in the Holy Cross Chapel which I shall be praying in front…