Today’s Gospel invites us all to make two decisions. Each of these decisions threatens to overturn our whole life and our whole normal...

Usually, telling somebody not to tell other people about what you are about to do to them or with them is a bit of a worry, to say the...

Take one thing away, and the total effect can often be spoiled for many of us. It doesn’t need to be a big thing even, but its removal is...

Doing things that we don’t particularly want to do is one of the markers of a civilised society I think, and the lack of doing so is one...

Maybe we missed it the first time, so Mark, evangelist of few words, repeats it, just in case – let us go away to a quiet place and be by...

‘Go away, seer, flee to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and prophesy there’. A bleak response to Amos in today’s first reading,...

Today, my friends, I want to begin this letter by paying tribute to my friend, colleague and assistant priest Father Paul Smith. Fr Paul...

Who is Jesus?  Who is He? When I started thinking about this Thought for the Week, and looked at the gospel reading, I got to wondering...

I was kindly asked to write this week's 'Thought for the week' and I am grateful to be trusted with such an important responsibility. I...

What has changed over the last few years for you? When you look at your life today, what’s different compared to five, ten or twenty...