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Dear Friends It’s the beginning of a new academic year and for some, that means it’s going to get busy. I’m not sure what the final third of the year might look like for you. If it does get busy, we’re called to maintain our love and devotion to God. In one of our summer sermons, I quoted Julian of Norwich, the medieval anchoress, she wrote about God, ‘his love makes him long for us’. What a thing to write,…

Dear Friends Many people take a break sometime in July/August, the summer holiday period. It can be a time to lap up the sunshine, enjoy a slower pace of life or do an activity unafforded during the busy working weeks. In the gospel, we discover that Jesus promoted times that changed the pace of life. Following the death of John the Baptist, Jesus said, “come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while. For there were many…

Dear Friends, Neil deGrasse Tyson, is an American Astrophysicist; he also posts on TikTok. In under a minute he debunks the old idiom ‘what goes up, must come down’. He reminds us there are human-made items on the Moon, Mars and space craft that have left our solar system. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977, according to NASA, it’s now a whopping 25.40 billion km away from earth and it’s never coming back. It’s true, on the rare occasion what…

Dear Friends, March and April, Lent and Easter are obviously coupled but feel like very different times. Seasonally, March is early spring and can still become very cold, April is ‘normally’ milder, even having warmer days. Whilst I like March with its yellow daffodils, I prefer April and the mild, occasionally warm, breeze. Lent is largely in March. During Lent we focus our energy and faith on Jesus’ experience in the wilderness where he was tempted by the Devil. Jesus’…