The Fifth Sunday of Easter
I’m not sure why I woke but I had a sense that something had happened with my phone. If it rings at 2:00am it is not for good news is my experience. I blearily looked at it and there had been no phone call…
Tag: Thought for the Week
Easter Sunday
I did smile when I read … Nero: This is the end of Christianity. Diocletian: This is the end of Christianity. Julian: This is the end of Christianity. Umayyad Caliphate: This is the end of Christianity. Ottoman Empire: This is the end of Christianity….
Palm Sunday
I like to sing. That is a surprise as, at Seminary, I was rejected from the Seminary Choir and had a ‘note’ from the music teacher at the Seminary for the Seminary and the church to allow me to speak the liturgy. (We were…
The Fourth Sunday in Lent
A good side of social media are the family connections – no matter which part of the world the family is – we can video with grandchildren home from school and parents can share brief clips of scenes, moment, activities – unfiltered as they…
The First Sunday in Lent
I was surprised to read of the English and Wales Cricket Board’s apology for its joke about The Ashes responding to Pope Francis’ social media post on Ash Wednesday. He said how ‘The Ashes’ remind us of our identity, put us in our place,…
The Transfiguration of Our Lord
The planetary parade is over. Last Friday night was the best opportunity to see seven planets across the night sky. Ok, you needed binoculars or telescope to see two planets (Uranus and Neptune) but the other five (Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Saturn) were…
The Seventh Sunday after The Epiphany
I’ve been doing the Australian salute again. Unconsciously at the beginning. But this week I definitely noticed it as the flies just wouldn’t go away! Charlotte commented how annoying the flies were wondering why all of a sudden – and I had no idea!…
The First Sunday after The Epiphany
It was my first baptism ‘up close’. New parents, first child (5 weeks old), all stressed partly because the baby had decided that his special baptismal gown was something that he should make a mess of with something his nappy couldn’t contain and so…
Observing The Epiphany of Our Lord
This blurb is not written by generative AI. Apparently, however, I am increasingly in the minority when it comes to using generative AI at work, at school, at university, or for any form of self promotion. With the rise of the internet my description…
The First Sunday after Christmas
Following on from the pandemic we now have more things online including access to Sunday worship services, Bible Studies, and Wednesday’s weekly Compline. At Sea Cadets during the pandemic, I, and a number of chaplains, provided messages online nationally and for my own Unit,…