We will turn our clocks back one hour on the 27th of October. This is known as “daylight saving time”. It enables us to have...
The Poppies of Remembrance
In late 1914, WW1 erupted across Northern France and Flanders. Great swathes of previously green fields and forests were...
Clergy Cogitations
At the 90th birthday party of a parishioner many years ago I got the chance to break through the crowds of adoring family and...
Monastic Musings
The period immediately after Easter Day is known as “The Great 50 Days”. Easter is not just one day; it is 50 days. It takes...
Deacon’s Deliberations
We have done it! Mark and I have made the move to Carluke, and boy has it been stressful. The boiler didn’t work, so for five...
Clergy Cogitations
The images that we are seeing on our television screens of the wars in The Holy Land and Ukraine leave us all shocked,...
Deacon’s Deliberations
The Role of a Vocational Deacon A Vocational Deacon has many roles, but, at its most basic, it is a servant role of word and...
Clergy Cogitations
Over the years I have developed something of a soft spot for St Joseph, especially because of the way he is portrayed in the...
Monastic Musings
In chapels, churches, cathedrals and monasteries the world over, the beginning of the month of November is a time of...
Ordination of Jackie Fenton to the Vocational Diaconate
I'm an old-fashioned kind of Christian. Don’t get me wrong, I like to stand in a field and clap along to a worship song from...







