part time priest

This Sunday will be the third in Advent and those of a churchy nature (well, some at least) will be lighting the pink one , aka the candle...

Fingers wet from the spilt juice of oranges, and encrusted with gummie bear sugar, I return from the annual Christingle making morning, t...

The annual Mothering Sunday Service angst draws on apace.  Tomorrow morning I'll be involved, tentatively, experientially, with the...

Very unusually for me I went for a pre-breakfast walk on day 3 of Lent, and Lenten thoughts were stimulated, in extrovert fashion, by seei...

I was having kittens today.  To be accurate, I got kittens today. On Candlemas. Candlemas cats. Of course they're still very small a...

Holy ground today. Mary the mother of Jesus, and on Mothering Sunday. There will not be another woman in either the Old or New Testament w...

I always think of Elizabeth as old, but age is a relative term so although she had given up hope of having children, she may only have bee...

What do we know of Anna, the first of our fabulous females of the New Testament?  She was a prophetess and lived in the Temple; she ...

As a Protestant born and bred, I feel I have missed out on Mary. The Catholics have the BVM (blessed virgin Mary) all sorted - but where doe...