Fr Andrew
- Sep 27, 2020
Thought for the week - 27 September 2020
When I first moved to ‘The North’ a few things took me by surprise! One was how, in a short visit to a local shop the shopkeeper could, by the time I left, know my life history, and probably my hat size too! Another was how true the statement is that people hereabouts call a spade a spade if not a blinkin’ shovel!
We get a sense of this kind of directness in our Gospel passage. We get the sense that Jesus is running out of patience with the carping of the Chief Pri
Fr Andrew
- Sep 20, 2020
Thought for the week - 20 September 2020
Matthew 21: 23-32 Looking now at me, built as I am, in Terry Wogan’s words, like a racing snake, it will surprise you I know, that I was never sporty at school. One abiding memory that still sends shivers down my spine, is ‘picking teams.’ Captains would pick us – or not – one after the other. Inevitably I would be one of the last. Standing there unpicked, the humiliation has surely left me with permanent scars – you tell me! This I think, is the untold story of our well-know
Fr Andrew
- Sep 6, 2020
Thought for the week - 6 September
As I opened my copy of the Christian journal The Tablet, (Vol 274 No. 9367) I was struck by two sub headlines. The first by Melanie McDonah, “I’m not sure how St Paul would have coped with a Bishop who wears lipstick.” Well, the question and the answer are certainly different now than 10 years ago – but that is a subject for another time!! The second, by Richard Leonard states: “Christians aren’t salespeople for the Gospel – we are called to be free samples of it.” His point
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