Posts from November 2024

Dearest friends, The team behind the Live Nativity at St. Luke’s on Christmas eve met this week and we need your help! We’re going to have five ‘stations’ outside St. Luke’s and we’d like to invite you to volunteer to build and run one of these stations. They are: A script will be written and provided, but we’d really like to invite you to own each station and make it as you see fit. We’ll walk around the stations as…

Dearest friends, Next Sunday we are going to be treated to a wonderful talk by The Rev’d Dr. Chris Moore on the gospel of Mark. Over the last season we have been reading through the Gospel of Mark and this talk will pull together many of the threads we’ve been talking and praying about – but more than that – Rev’d Chris will put them into the context of the day. He will lead us through an understanding of why…

Dearest friends, It may seem odd to think of pilgrimage as a Holy Habit. It’s very unlike the things we talked for the last two weeks – small, gentle, prods that encourage us to think about Jesus in our day to day lives. But, over the years I’ve found regular pilgrimage to be a life giving source of understanding and questioning on my journey with Christ. I tend to go on pilgrimage with my dear brother Fr. Sam Cross. We…

Dearest friends, I’m very much looking forward to our Holy Habits course this Thursday. Last week I told you about the first week – bodily prayer, why we cross ourselves, and why that’s important.  Next week (14th) we’ll be talking about Gratitude. Gratitude is a tough old habit, but it is a habit we learn. It’s important that we don’t confuse gratitude with joy, or happiness – or indeed happiness with joy! No, gratitude is a spiritual discipline that has…