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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Living Tradition and Dead Faith.

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“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionali...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

A traditional game of pass the parcel.

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis on the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. It’s Tessa’s birthday party and you’re sit...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

St Benedict's Priory Salisbury 2012: Service and Humility

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As usual, I spend my retreat with the Monks formerly of Elmore now based at Salisbury. Although, I'm no longer technically in Communi...
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Friday, August 03, 2012

Worship Groups and Wesley's Rules

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John Wesley's rules for singing: 1. Learn these Tunes before you learn any others. 2. Sing them exactly as they are printed here,...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Good as gold but beware of Trolls!

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Know ye not that they which run in a race run all , but one receiveth the prize? So run , that ye may obtain . And every man that striv...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Adoption, identity and scotch eggs

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis, Rochester, on the eighth Sunday after Trinity. Bill is playing on his Xbox 360 ...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

St Mary Magdalene: Guilt, Evolution and Purity

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Today is the Feast of St Mary Magdalene, a woman whose reputation has suffered as much after her passing as before. At Mass in Rochester...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Benedict, Augustine and Osmund: Pilgrimage by staying still

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I really ought to have blogged last Wednesday being the Solemnity of the Feast of Holy Father Benedict. As it was, there was a lot happening...
Monday, July 09, 2012

SS John Fisher and Thomas More: Heroes, Heretics and Hard hearts

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Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine...
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Sunday, July 01, 2012

Vision on, vision off

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis on Trinity iv 2012 based on St Luke vi.36 Rolf Harris is painting a picture. I...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

St John the Baptist: Breathing the Orders of Prophecy

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Today marks the Nativity of the Birth of St John the Baptist, the last great Old Testament Prophet who, ironically, features exclusively in ...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Neither Male nor Female: A study in foolishness

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Let's start here. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Broken bones and broken hearts

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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath ...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Catholicism: Not a church for anyone

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I do honestly puzzle over the meaning of a certain thesis-antithesis pairing which seems to affect the Church these days. What does it reall...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The Skeleton of Conservatism, Fleshly Liberality and Procrustean Polemics

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Well, as the exam season has its hiatus, I have the opportunity to blog again. When I have moved on from being in charge of exam administrat...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

One Human Being in a Multiplicity of Persons

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis for Trinity Sunday 2012. Text:  Apocalypse iv. Why is the liturgical colour      ...