As a prominent church at a highly visible location and with bells ringing, St Paul’s regularly gets visitors. Some of them are in the country just briefly, others live here and may be looking for a church. Overall, I think that regular parishioners are quite welcoming towards those visitors. One of the ways of doing…
This Sunday I’m beginning a sermon series on St Paul’s Letter to the Romans, which will take us well into July. The Letter to the Romans is the Epistle reading in the Lectionary, but rather than following the exact passages in the Lectionary, I have decided to go through some of the key passages over these weeks. The Letter to the Romans…
On the 15th May Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical. Magnifica humanitas is about safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. It includes much wisdom and Christian insight. The encyclical is directed to the world at large, but from a distinct Christian viewpoint. “We wish to engage in dialogue with all…