Praising God in Devon

Dearest friends, At the well in Samaria, Jesus asks a simple question: “Give me a drink.” What begins as an ordinary encounter becomes a moment of transformation. The woman arrives carrying her water jar, expecting a routine task, but leaves with something far greater — the promise of “living water.” Lent invites us to recognise our own thirst. We often draw from wells that cannot truly satisfy: success, approval, comfort, or distraction. Yet Christ meets us in the ordinary places…

Dearest friends, On March 1st, if it were not a Sunday, we would be celebrating the Feast of St. David. We’re told that St. David’s final words were ‘Be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that you have heard and seen me do’. These words are actually taken from his final sermon on the Sunday before he died – he was a prodigious preacher and founded monastic settlements over Wales, the South West of England and even…

Dearest friends, Why do we deprive ourselves during Lent? Over the last few years, it has become quite popular to take something up for Lent, rather than giving something up. You can see the attraction. Giving something up makes us uncomfortable – why would you deprive yourself of small treats that make daily life that much easier? The Orthodox church seems to understand this better than we do. Lent gets progressively difficult over the coming weeks.  Instead of giving up…