I am the way, the truth and life. John 14.6 The Well Encounter ‘A Samaritan woman came to draw water.’ John 4:7 I heard a voice that set the wind in my heart free We met alone, strangers at the well outside town outside convention outside ourselves. Water, draw water from this ancient well, draw it, woman, Samaritan; give me a drink, friend. His first words cut, I shivered awake, a taboo was broken; I was pulled out of my trance. I lowered the pot off my head,

Reflection for Second Sunday of Lent: Matthew 17: 1-9 Transfiguration of Christ 14th Century stained glass panel from Germany We are not even halfway through our Lenten journey when presented with the Gospel reading from Matthew of the Transfiguration of our Lord. This extraordinary revelation of Jesus as God’s son is told in remarkably similar detail in all three synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Jesus takes three of his closest disciples to a remote place up a mou

Reflection on the rite of Baptism and belief in Limbo in relation to Seamus Heaney's poem, Limbo

There is a little-known work by the English poet, Christina Rossetti, published towards the end of her life in 1885 which is simply titled, Time Flies: A Reading Diary. It contains short prose and poetic devotional meditations for each day of the year. These reflections, anchored in the Anglican Church Calendar, are personal but also broad in their subject matter. Some are dedicated to the Feast of that particular day’s saint; others draw on a line from the Gospels.