Last Wednesday night at Holy Family Church, Bishop Hugh addressed nineteen young people gathered with their families to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. He compared the event to an individual Pentecost. Still, he advised them not to get disappointed if there were no spectacular tangible signs like those reportedly appearing at the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem…
Last Sunday, we were trying to peek into the mystery of the Holy Trinity and – in order to do so – we had to resort to the language of metaphors, symbols and comparisons. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether my attempts were successful or not. But the need to use some tactile, tangible imagery proved it obvious…
It took an apple (the fruit, not the electronic device) and an inquisitive mind to “discover” a force to which we all owe our existence. According to legend, Sir Isaac Newton was enlightened by an apple falling from a tree on his head; most historians dismiss this, but he was certainly curious about why apples always fall straight to the…
It’s a mysterious force that keeps our world running. Without it, the world as we know it would rapidly cease to exist, literally. The force is so common and omnipresent that we only realise its existence when it’s absent. Electricity – that’s what I’m talking about – seems to be a simple concept we all get, but actually, few understand.…
The coronation of King Charles a couple of weeks ago turned out to be quite controversial and even divisive. One of many arguments against it was whether such an ancient Christian ritual makes any sense in 21st-century Britain, a place so diverse on the one hand and increasingly irreligious on the other that it can hardly be called a Christian…