Waiting is a winter experience.

We wait anxiously for the coming of the cold and the snow. We wait expectantly for the coming of the thaw and the first signs.... Read more

The Christian year begins with Advent, the time of expectant waiting. Why? To reveal to us the aspiration that lies within us and to deepen it: the desire for an absolute to which each person tends.... Read more

Night has fallen; the clear, bright stars are sparkling in the cold air; noisy, strident voices rise to my ear from the city, voices of the revellers of this world.... Read more

You’ll need to have your speakers on for this extract from Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral. The choir sing Morten Lauridsen’s beautiful setting of

“O Magnum Mysterium”.

Supporting material from the weekly hour of prayer, music and readings from the Gospels, which guided us, as adults, into the Nativity story.... Read more

Every day seems to throw up a new problem, another family, so sad sometimes.  The other day we had a very touching case.  A fairly young man came asking.... Read more