Pause for Prayer

The silence was more frightening than the sounds of the street and the air raid sirens calling the ‘all clear’. One or two buildings had been badly damaged or destroyed. A battered pram remained exactly where a mother had placed it. Was the baby in the air raid shelter or not? Who knows? It was […]

There was a time when, many years ago, I used to help my fellow students in giving hot soup and bread rolls at night to the down-and-outs clustered underneath a flyover in Coventry city centre. The soup was always ‘interesting’ and the creation of a gypsy (a genuine Romany) who, helping out as a cook […]

The young woman, sat beside the farmer as he drove his horse and buggy through the open fields. It was her first time away from the busy life of Boston. Captivated by the unfamiliar scenery, as she was driven past one field in particular, she turned to the gruff, unsmiling farmer, asking him to explain […]

Instead of writing my own reflection this evening, I thought you might like to read something very interesting that a Jesuit friend of mine forwarded to me.
God bless,
Sr. Janet
The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes.
The […]

The cock crowed twice. I had betrayed him three times. He looked at me with such understanding and love that it pierced me to the heart, a heart that felt as though it would break. He had been so good to me, putting up with my blustering and my efforts to captain my crew even […]