In or about the year 412, the North African Bishop, St Augustine, received a letter from a widow concerned about the words of St Paul from the second lesson this…
I suggested a few weeks ago that to pray is to be made poor. I did not mean by this, of course, that it is to be made materially poor,…
I would like to begin our reflections this morning by inviting us to cast our minds back to the Gospel lesson for the Sunday after Easter. Though for us it…
In a recent book about his annual pilgrimage to Mount Athos (also called the Holy Mountain – the famous monastic settlement in Greece), the American poet Scott Cairns describes numerous…
In 1941 two American songwriters wrote the now famous World War II standard “(Bluebirds over) the White Cliffs of Dover.” Made unforgettable by Dame Vera Lynn’s recording in 1942, the…
It matters immensely that Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb in this morning’s Gospel while it is still dark. From the very beginning of the Bible, darkness is suggestive of…
Just as in the story of creation we read that God rests on the Sabbath day, the seventh day (Saturday), so too in the story of our Lord’s Passion Jesus…
In 1642 the first significant battle of the English Civil War was fought as Royalist forces marched on London. The armies were composed, as has so often been historically true,…
Last week a group of parishioners met following the liturgy to review the many details involved in keeping Holy Week at St George’s. The conversation eventually turned to Tabitha the…
Bishop Anthony Bloom tells the story of a young Russian woman and her children whose small town was caught up in the convulsions of the Russian revolution in the early…