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.

Christmas is not a fixed ideal, but as George Eliot knows, it is like life itself always in process and change.

A reflection on Ash Wednesday based on a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Thou art indeed just, Lord'.

What is it that can hold us steady? Nothing but the unwavering, steady presence of Christ’s love.