Posts from April 2026

Dearest friends, Why are we blessing motorbikes? It’s a good question! Why are we blessing them at the Cathedral rather than here in church, if this is a new worshipping community for us? Another good question! We bless motorbikes in a tradition that goes back to at least the 1950s. In 1959 Father Bill Shergold got up the courage to wander into the Ace Cafe and invite bikers to come to his church for Evensong. It was not an easy…

Dearest friends, St Joseph the Worker is a quiet but compelling example of discipleship lived out in ordinary life. He is not remembered for preaching sermons or performing miracles, but for his faithfulness in daily work, his obedience to God, and his care for those entrusted to him. Our world often measures worth by status or achievement. St. Joseph reminds us that holiness is found in the hidden and the humble. As a carpenter, he sanctified ordinary labour, showing that…

Dearest friends, St George is often remembered as the dragon-slayer. Whether or not we dwell on the details of that story, its meaning is clear enough: here is a man who faced evil, not with fear or compromise, but with courage rooted in faith.  The dragon, in Christian imagination, has long stood for all that opposes God—sin, injustice, fear, and death itself. And so George’s victory is not really about heroism for its own sake, but about trust that, in…

Dearest friends, Divine Mercy Sunday – Finding peace through mercy. In the 1930’s a Polish nun called Sr. Faustina (now St. Faustina) experienced a series of visions of Jesus. Amongst her visions, Jesus asked her to paint this very special image – an image of the Divine Mercy of God flowing from his Sacred Heart.  Her visions were centred around Jesus, bringing her to a place where she could see the mercy of God at work in the world around…

Dearest friends, The empty tomb stands as a symbol of the greatest hope and the greatest story ever told. Of a man who came to earth, was crucified, died, buried, descended into hell, and on the third day rose again! He came to take away our sin, to bring us into a new life in God. So as we start this journey together on Thursday evening, as darkness descends and altars are stripped. We must remember that darkness will never…