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Patriarchs
The promises of God, like distant views, stretching before our eyes from hilltops climbed, summon us onward, whilst we look for clues from ancient ones who lived with God in mind. Abram God’s blessing...
View ArticleTurning Point for Augustine
“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” Augustine, Confessions VIII, 7. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires” Romans 13:14 Stalking in the...
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Prophets
He’s tall; he’s eloquent; he knows for sure that God has sent him to convince us all. ‘If you continue pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, disaster waits to ambush future generations? Stop pretending...
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St John the Baptist
The truth within me swells until it feels I have to birth it. Womanish perhaps but that’s the best description of the strength inside erupting; Herod felt its lash of condemnation. Evil putrefies in...
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Mary
The handmaid of the Lord sings a great song Which echoes down all evenings in our praise For God whose plans are ages, ages long Whose thoughts are not our thoughts, ways not our ways. Chosen by God...
View ArticleOn the Incarnation: Four Chalcedonian Sonnets
‘Haec et mea fides est quando haec est catholica fides’ (Aug. De Trin., I.iv.7) 1. Cyril’s Second Letter to Nestorius ‘Mother of God’ the Fathers said, and we, If we in faith with them are still to...
View ArticleThe Point of the Nails
Sins aren’t erased by a finger pushing the cancel button: they’re absorbed by a body pushed around and broken. Surrounded by mocking curiosity, vindictive invective, derisive frivolity, Jesus dies –...
View ArticlePentecost Litany: The Church and the Nations
God the Father forms his people, from out of the nations to bless the nations; Jesus the Christ saves his people, from out of the nations to bless the nations; The Holy Spirit draws...
View ArticleTrinity Litany: Mission in Communion
In the beginning, mission in communion: The Father sent the Son and the Spirit. God spoke his word through Melchizedek and Hagar, Rahab and Ruth, Balaam and Naaman, Jethro and Job. Together they...
View ArticleLikeness Litany: Facing the Image
Formed in the image and likeness of God, We rejoice; Fired by violence and facing away, We recoil; Defaced, despairing, curved in on ourselves, We cry; Remaking, repairing, curved into the world, You...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Became Intimate
God became poor; God plumbed the depths; God used body language; God used means to save mean people; God came as a foreigner to earth for our benefit; God crossed the widest cultural chasm in the...
View ArticleLent
This life is given to me from the hand of God, Lent out of eternity for my brief span Which totters forward daily Greying hair and growing experience marking The passing Of each year. This time is...
View ArticleTerror unleashed
Outwitted, outmanoeuvred, Herod unleashes terror. Revenge, outraged, ventures out, Unresisted, unrestrained. Many are slaughtered to slay the One: The One survives to save the many. This is one...
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The Hostage Deal
This Holy Week and Easter, we continue to pray for those who are held as hostages throughout the world, and in particular in the Middle East abducted by ISIS, including Bishop Boulos Yazigi, of the...
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God With Us: A Christmas Hymn
God with us from our beginning, Sheltered in our mother's womb. God with us through birth and childhood, Sharing happiness and gloom. Word of God through whom was fashioned All that is and e'er shall...
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The Mirror
Three ‘t’s on the scrubby hill, neatly crossed the Roman way, The naked ‘i’s, skewered like worms, dotted burgundy with blood, As clear to the passing eye as three billboards by a roadside: Death to...
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Remembering, Thinking, Imagining: Augustine, Anselm, and Rowan
On the day of Pentecost, at 9 o’clock in the morning, I was about to get off the number 188 bus at the stop nearest our church, St. Matthew’s at Elephant and Castle. I was surprised to see a man at the...
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