‘I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered…’ Marc Chagall *** Image: Stained glass windows in the...

Description of the Northumbrian monastic community: ‘Dynamic and erratic, spontaneous and radical, audacious and immature, committed if...

‘Behold God beholding you – and smiling’ Anthony de Mello *** Image: Saturn, seven of its moons and inner rings. Photos taken by NASA's...

At the centre of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark...

‘Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God’s own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with...

‘who is the third that walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road...

Dear Friends, One of the highlights of the Church's year is when we light the Paschal Candle on Easter morning. This is lit to celebrate...

‘The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable,...

‘We almost naturally float forward by the quiet movement of grace when the time is right – and the old agenda shows itself to be...

‘In essentials, unity In nonessentials, liberty In all things, charity’ Quoted by Pope John XXIII in his first encyclical, ‘Ad Petri...

‘What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ Mary Oliver *** Image: Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) following...

‘Great love is always a discovery, a revelation, a wonderful surprise, a falling into something much bigger and deeper that is literally...

‘Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you’. From ‘Anne of Green Gables’ by L.M Montgomery...

‘Religion serves the function of radical transformation and liberation. This function does not fortify the separate self but utterly...

Dear Friends, I have read through your contributions to the Anthem of Gratitude over and over again, until they have got under my skin...

‘God passed into humanity so that humanity might pass over into God’ St Iranaeus *** Image: The Virgin Teaching the Christ Child to Read,...

That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this,...

‘Enter eagerly into the treasure house that is within you, and you will see the things that are in Heaven – for there is but one single...

‘Even in the dryness of our desert journey, we are offered a sustaining taste of the sweet, living waters. Even amidst the gloom, we...

‘Our protection is a God who spurned protection. Our protection is a God of vulnerability. We will be vulnerable as the children of...