Today is Palm Sunday. The beginning of Holy Week. The day Jesus rode into Jerusalem: the long-awaited Messiah, the one people had been hoping for, waiting for, longing for. And He arrived… on a donkey. Not a noble steed. Not surrounded by splendour or ceremony. No polished display of power. Just a borrowed animal, ploddingContinue reading “Lent 2026: Not what we expect”
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Lent 2026: Ordinary acts, extraordinary faith
Today I was learning about Dorothy Day, an extraordinary woman of faith of the 20th century. She was American, with a heart for social action all of her adult life. She converted to Roman Catholicism as an adult, and her literal interpretation of the bible fueled her social action. She took the words of theContinue reading “Lent 2026: Ordinary acts, extraordinary faith”
Lent 2025: God in the Silence
This process of writing a reflection at the end of the day has been really helpful for me. I find it’s a way to reflect and learn more about God, about deepening my faith as I really apply my mind to seeing God in the day just gone or wrestling with things that provide stumblingContinue reading “Lent 2025: God in the Silence”
Lent 2025: Ordinary joys
This morning, it snowed. Not enough to settle, just a gentle flurry — but enough to make me smile. Snow always feels special, maybe because we don’t see it very often here. It reminds me of childhood winters, of visiting my grandparents in the north and waking up to a world transformed overnight. There’s somethingContinue reading “Lent 2025: Ordinary joys”
Making the ordinary extraordinary
The fourth Sunday of advent is when some churches focus on Mary. Reading the gospels, all we know about Mary is she was a virgin pledged to be married to Joseph in the town of Nazareth in Galilee. She wasn’t remarkable, she had no special quality. She was ordinary. Except… Mary found favour in withContinue reading “Making the ordinary extraordinary”
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