“Death has no power over him any more”  (Romans 6v9) There is poem by the seventeenth-century English poet John Donne that begins: “Death be not proud, though some have called thee/Mighty and dreadful…” And it finishes: “one short sleep past,…

“Then will your light shine like the dawn” (Isaiah 58.8) “How would you like to be remembered?” the interviewer asked her guest. I recall this question being asked of someone. There was a long pause as the guest seemed to…

I think that Christmas at St. Bertoline’s 2024 was rather special. Mind you, I suspect I say that every year! The church looked just wonderful with the vast and imaginative array of flower arrangements. There was such a warm and…

When a couple is expecting their first child, the father and mother-to-be often discuss the changes that they will have to make in their pattern of living, and the differences another person in the house will make. Yet, parents will…

“See I am making all things new” Those words come from the Book of Wisdom. The natural world shows forth God’s power to restore and renew. Autumn by autumn the leaves fall from the trees. “In the eyes of the…