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-the long-suffering servant girl of Lucca If you have ever been in trouble for simply doing good, then Zita is the saint for you.  Born in 1218 to poor but devout parents in Monsagrati, Zita was sent at the age of 12 to work as a servant for the rich Fatinelli family in nearby Lucca....

Editor: Easter is a time when many community events take place. You may wish to consider contacting your local Tourist Information Office and including notice of some of these events in your magazine this month. 

April brings us Spring Harvest – the annual cross-denominational conference which attracts thousands of people every year to two Butlin’s resorts. It is held over the Easter period in Skegness (7th to 11th) and Minehead (14th to 18th). It is also live-streamed from Minehead. For details of this year’s gathering, including speakers and worship leaders,...

On the first day of the week, in the evening Prayer for April 2025 History in the Making A Common Thief The Magic World of Oliver Postgate An after-Easter prayer ** On the first day of the week, in the evening (John 20: 19-23) Locked in, afraid, Uncertain, even after Mary’s story, even after that...

 The Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice (ACRJ) has published its sixth and final report. It was charged with monitoring, and supporting the implementation of the 47 recommendations of the Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce. The report calls for the church to address the “gaping wound of racial injustice that afflicts it” and to “reach out and welcome all...

** Good Friday I was standing in line at the bank when there was a commotion at the counter. A woman was very distressed, exclaiming, “Where will I put my money?! I have all my money and my mortgage here!! What will happen to my mortgage?! You can’t do this to us!” It turned out...

In 828 the relics of St Mark the evangelist were seized from their resting place in Alexandria and brought by two adventurers to Venice. The Basilica of St Mark was built to house these relics, and it was this link between the saint and Venice that determined so much of the city’s history through the...

If you live in the countryside, here’s a way to help keep local wildlife alive: draw your curtains at night and turn off your outside lights. Apparently, the darker we can keep it outside, the better. Animals and insects who live in rural areas are especially susceptible to bright lights, which can confuse and disorientate...

Why would you need a device that scrambles the radio signal from a remote locking device on a modern car? Unless you wanted to steal it? Exactly. And so, the government is now banning the sale and even possession of such electronic devices. And not too soon, either, as the device is currently used in...

PCR tests were a fact of life for most of us three years ago this month. As a biologist who was doing this procedure long before most people had heard of it, I take secret delight in people’s use of the acronym. Let me open the laboratory door and share the wonders it conceals. That...

The future of the Abbey Church in Dunfermline is in danger. Originally founded as a priory by Queen Margaret in the 11th century, Dunfermline Abbey has been calledScotland’s equivalent of Westminster Abbey in London. It also contains the bones of King Robert the Bruce, which draws 40,000 visitors a year. But now the Abbey needs...

‘Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple… and said “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we...