Category: St Mike’s

  • Waiting

    Waiting

  • non-violence

    This mornings reflection was about non-violence and the work of Pax Christi. The aim of such reflections is, I guess to make us think, listening to the breakfast conversation following this it certainly provided food for thought. But the reference to the beatitudes was mentioned, blessed be the peace makers. A wonderful book by Elias…

  • Worth of Animals

    Abraham and Isaac was the reading this morning. As Abraham substituted the ram for his son, I couldn’t help but think that animals must be just as worthy as humans!

  • Image of God

    During a prison visit this week, the chaplain recounted a story of how he had looked into the eyes of a sex offender and seen the face of Christ!! It had the impact it deserved!

  • Cynical cynic

    There was, once upon a time a group of people who went about casting doom and gloom around the place, generally against the establishment of the day, casting aspersions about the state of play. And they were called cynics What has this to do with the reluctant ordinand? Ah, well the cynics all wore open…

  • Monday (again)

    They come round so quickly don’t they! Hopefully not as quick as R. S. Thomas sees the kingdom coming in this poem It’s a long way off, but inside it There are quite different things going on: Festivals at which the poor man Is king and the consumptive is Healed: mirrors in which the blind…

  • Eulogy

    No not mine. Damn, some may say! But one given about a dear friend. He and his colleague were working amongst the youth of the church and when getting together remarked at how much the church needed to change and how it didn’t support those it ought. There were very aware of the shortcomings of…

  • Mission

    urgh It’s a word I detest, and yet (apparently) we need to be doing it… You see I just find that I cannot foist my opinions on someone else unless they ask. Am I too polite? ahh no! Is it that I am so weak in faith that I do not believe well enough to…

  • Still Waiting?

    To be able to wait, and wait patiently is I think a true gift of God. Yesterday someone said of a prayer to God. ‘God give me patience… But hurry up! So typical of our prayers, expecting what we want immediately, without looking at what it is we are asking for or how we could…

  • Remembering Dafydd

    In Memory of Dafydd Owen who died this morning. Wine and whisky, theology and films. Son, Brother, Partner, colleague or friend; however we remember Dafydd, it must be as one who was never content that he had seen it all or done everything. If Dafydd expressed regret, knowing he was dying, it was only that…