Fr Andrew Teather
Sep 10, 2023
Thought for the week - 10 September 2023
People, or at least the media, seem to like individuals – people who stick out. Maybe the media like them because, with a little...
Fr Andrew Teather
Sep 3, 2023
Thought for the week - 3 September 2023
Saint Peter is a difficult man to understand, and he can seem a bit of a letdown to us, who look to him for answers, or at least for a...
St Stephens
Aug 27, 2023
Thought for the week - 27 August 2023
Let us look at the beginning of the gospel for today because it seems as good a place as any to begin: Matthew shows Jesus journeying as...
Fr Andrew Teather
Aug 20, 2023
Thought for the week - 20 August
It’s a problem for us, I think, when we consider who is ‘like’ us. We worship here in St Stephen’s as millions do in their churches...
Fr Andrew Teather
Aug 13, 2023
Thought for the week - 13 August
Sometimes people like to say that the Assumption of Mary is ‘not in the Bible’ and we have to accept that scriptural references are...
Fr Andrew Teather
Aug 6, 2023
Thought for the week - 6 August
The Transfiguration is a mystery wrapped in light, and the light has sometimes made it hard to understand, hard to grasp, like chasing a...
Fr Andrew Teather
Jul 30, 2023
Thought for the week - 30 July
On the face of it, this morning we hear about the reception of ‘stuff’- Solomon is offered ‘stuff’ and chooses Wisdom above all else –...
Fr Andrew Teather
Jul 23, 2023
Thought for the week - 23 July
I used to live in Germany, in the Rhineland Pfalz, of the Pfalz for short. It’s a little known and quite magical place, set between the...
Fr Andrew Teather
Jul 16, 2023
Thought for the week - 16 July
Over the next few weeks we will hear some of the parables of Jesus. They’re lively, punchy stories and they stick in your mind, and...
Fr Andrew Teather
Jul 2, 2023
Thought for the week - 2 July
I wonder if sometimes, as I do, you read the news online and think that maybe a sense of perspective would be useful? Issues of equality,...