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  • Lammas – Gŵyl Awst

    Today we celebrate ‘Lammas’. It marks the beginning of Harvest, traditionally the wheat harvest.  Lammas means Loaf Mass.  At the beginning of the harvest the workers would gather, bake a loaf of bread with the first cut of the harvest and offer it at the Mass as a thanksgiving for the years growth. It was…

  • Sparkly eyes and a button nose

    Finally I see themand wonder how could I notas you ask after me.There were others in the room of coursebut only one with colourful hat in contrast to the anonymous green you wearyour smile behind the mask and laughwith me as you inject my arm.The sparkling eyes and button nose were all I saw till…

  • Alban Hefin Summer Solstice

    Coda, distewi, synfyfyrio yng nghanol yr haf dros yr olygfa ymlaen ac yn ôl cyn disgynnol Rise up, becalm, contemplateat midsummer the view ahead behind before descending

  • Genir yr Haf Birth of Summer

    O’r Hendref i’r Hafod.Preswylir o’r Gaeaf i’r Haf.Ymestyn, dysgu llawenhau. From the Hearth onto the heath.Winter to summer dwelling.Stretching, learning to rejoice.

  • A last pair of shoes

    How do you buy shoes that last?  My grandfather always seemed to wear  the same shoes. Not the same pair. Like all things, they eventually needed replacing. Each pair got demoted when the new ones arrived. Sunday shoes, well polished, lived by the front door. From there they began a slow march through the kitchen…

  • Alban Eilir – Spring Equinox

    Arhoswch a gwyliwchy gad llonydd daearu troi heibio am orffwys.cymododd trwy farwolaeth aileni Watch and wait the letting goearthed laid out to restreconciled through death reborn

  • Clychau Mair – Snowdrops for Candlemas

    Gwydn ond gostyngedig gyda’i pen i lawr yn erbyn y gaeaf gwyllt. Fel bydwragedd canant hyw: ‘Mae’n gerllaw’ Determined but humble with heads hung low against the wild winter. As midwife they sing: ‘It is at hand’

  • An Extraordinary Ordinary Morning

    The season of Epiphany continues and we are gently encouraged to pay attention these January days in this playful discourse between Nathaniel, Philip and Jesus In our Gospel reading today from John 1. 43-51 (Can anything good come out of Nazareth? well, Come and see!) The story moves quickly from the ordinary – sitting under…

  • Unexpected Beauty

    What is it that we seek? A brief moment of sublime beauty would be enough.  It might be in the reactions of others, it might simply be a reaction to the world around us doing what it does and the fact that we call it beautiful is to do with our reactions to it, whatever…

  • Flesh for the Word

    The Word became Wisdom and lived among us : but foolishly we missed its simplicity. So the Word became Light and lived among us : but we smothered its flame. Then Word became Truth and lived among us : but we disbelieved its sincerity. And the Word became Hope and lived among us : but…