What exactly is the triumph in today’s gospel? We call it the triumphal entry, yet it hardly resembles the kind of triumph we instinctively imagine. There is no military parade, no display of power or prestige. Jesus simply rides a borrowed colt. His followers are not an army but a small, hopeful, slightly bewildered group of […]
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The new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, set out last week on a six-day walking pilgrimage from London to Canterbury, as part of her spiritual preparation for her Installation service at Canterbury Cathedral on Wednesday 25 March. The British Province of Carmelites were proud that during this personal
The readings for this Sunday draw us into one of Scripture’s most daring claims: God refuses to leave anything dead. Not bones scattered in a desert, not a friend sealed in a tomb, not the parts of our own lives that feel beyond repair. The God who speaks through Ezekiel and acts through Jesus is
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“Every journey begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu The new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, set out earlier this week on a six-day walking pilgrimage from London to Canterbury, as part of her spiritual preparation for her Installation service at Canterbury Cathedral on Wednesday 25 March. The
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Lent has a way of leading us gently, step by step, into deeper light. Each Sunday’s Gospel seems to take us a little further along a path of seeing—seeing God more clearly, seeing ourselves more honestly, and seeing others with renewed compassion. Two weeks ago, on the mountain of Transfiguration, the disciples were given a
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He arrives at the well at the wrong time of day—heat pressing down, dust rising, the kind of hour when even the shadows seem to retreat. Jesus sits there, tired and thirsty, resting beside a well that has heard and witnessed the stories of generations. Nothing dramatic. Nothing holy-looking. Just a weary man beside ancient
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