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I was shopping recently with my wife at the local Tesco store. Having paid for our goods we were given a blue token, which my wife explained we could place in the donation box of a local good cause as we left the shop. Sure enough, near the exit were three large plastic containers into...

I sit me down for evening food After a day at work The phone then rings, I think, “How rude! “I’ve barely raised my fork!” “I’m sorry to disturb you, sir,” (Now that’s a fearful lie!) “But I would like now to confer “About your PPI.” I try to be a Christian, real. And, though...

Chad (d 672) should be the patron saint of any modern bishop whose consecration is questioned by another bishop.   Chad was consecrated a bishop, then deposed – and then re-consecrated! It all began when Oswiu, king of Northumbria, made him bishop of the Northumbrian see.   But due to a scarcity of appropriate bishops, two dubious...

If you had to describe our society in a single word, the most appropriate one would be pressure. We live with pressure in every aspect of life, from our school, work or family life, to the big issues facing our world. King David knew what it meant to live under pressure. His son, Absalom, led...

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Casimir is a good patron saint for anyone whose father drives them crazy.  For he did not let an unhappy background stop him from becoming the person he wanted to be.  Yet Casimir’s father, the King of Poland back in 1458, was no picnic as a dad. For if you think your teens were difficult,...

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another… (Romans 13:8) Suppose you move home and then start getting letters from a debt collecting agency about a person who used to live there? You then get people coming to your house or even the police looking for someone. You apply for...

I’m a March baby, the youngest of five children born to my parents in a small Yorkshire pit village in 1950. I think I was something of an afterthought, a surprise even, and the story of my entry into the world is quite amusing. In those days my mother, a stout lady, wore an apron...

‘A smouldering wick He will not snuff out…’ – Isaiah 42 The oil is consumed, the lamp burns low. Bright, dancing flame becomes a flick’ring glow. Exhausted, tiny, failing source of light almost overpowered by the night but its last efforts catch Compassion’s eye. He refuels the lamp that has run dry then cups His...

Ever wonder why we eat pancakes just before Lent?  The tradition dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, when Christians spent Lent in repentance and severe fasting. So on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, the church bell would summon them to confession, where they would be ‘shriven’, or absolved from their sins, which gives us Shrove Tuesday.  ...

Who will your Mothering Sunday card be addressed to this year?  If that sounds a silly question, consider this: last year, for the first time in the UK, you could choose between cards that called your mother Mother, Mum or – Mom. Paperchase was the company who brought in the American flavoured ‘Mom’, and the...

Eusebius is the saint for you if you believe in the Bible, and also in providing hospitality.  He was born of a good family in Cremona, Italy, in the fourth century, and felt called to become a monk.  As Eusebius was ascetic by nature, he sought out St Jerome in Rome, who advocated an austere...