‘Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the ceiling. They configure themselves To...

‘The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality, to trust our divine image and grow in God’s...

‘The point is the seeing – the grace Beyond recognition, the ways Of the bird rising, unnamed, unknown Beyond the range of language,...

‘At the back of our brains, so to speak, there’s a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the...

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp,...

‘Taste and see the goodness of the Lord’ Psalm 34:8 *** Image: ‘Marriage at Cana’ - frescos in the Ferapontov Monstery, Vologda Oblast,...

‘In what way do you have a feverish desire to do the will of God?’ Richard Rohr *** I mage: ‘Praying Hands’, Oral Roberts University,...

‘the dawning of divine light in the stillness of our hearts’ Thomas Merton *** Image: Dawn on the Sula River, Nyzhnosulskyi National...

My dear Friends, This is the last Pastoral Letter I shall write to you this year. As I have mentioned to you before, had I known in March...

‘Sophia is the eros of God become one with all creation, the love in God that longs for incarnation from before the beginning. She is the...

‘Mary spins earthly matter into being and weaves it together with the heavens so that all of creation is interpenetrated with the...

‘It is such a deceptively simple phrase – God with us, Emmanuel, yet it makes theologies, philosophies and political theories reel.’ Jane...

‘God is in a vulnerable new born baby in a feeding trough. We need to see the mystery of incarnation in one ordinary, concrete moment,...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to...

…So he paused. And the Grinch put his hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low. Then it started...

O holy night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of our dear Saviour's birth. Long lay the world in sin and error pining,...

My dear Friends, For the past 30 years, Christmas Eve has been one of the busiest of days for me. As well as getting my own household...

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let...

Before the ice is in the pools— Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow— Before the fields have...

…This world is wild as an old wives' tale, And strange the plain things are, The earth is enough and the air is enough For our wonder and...