Morning Prayer - 24th August 2020

It was a great pleasure to lead a short service of Morning Prayer today on the St Augustine's College of Theology Facebook page whilst on holiday in the Cotswolds. Please follow along by watching the video below.

Morning Prayer - 27th July 2020

It was a great pleasure to lead Morning Prayer today on the St Augustine's College of Theology Facebook page, which I led from our small 'garden' beneath the banana leaves. Please follow along by watching the video below.

Sung Morning Prayer - Monday 13th July 2020

It was a great pleasure to lead Morning Prayer today on the St Augustine's College of Theology Facebook page. Please follow along by watching the video below. This was my first attempt at singing the whole of the office, using chants from the 1902 Manual of Plainsong. You can follow the chants and the order of service at this link. 

Lord, help us to flatten the curve and deepen our faith

Oscar Romero Cross, St George's Cathedral, Southwark

It was a great pleasure to lead morning prayer for St Augustine's College of Theology today live on Facebook. These are the prayers I wrote, inspired by the life of Harriett Monsell, remembered today, and the readings and psalms appointed for this morning: Psalms 53, 86,  Exodus 4.27-6.1 and Hebrews 10.19-25.

We are being told day in day out to flatten the curve - to help the NHS. This is good advice! But the cross has two parts. As well as focussing on the horizontal (something we find easy to do in life), we must not forget the vertical! (I have written more about that recently here: "Thank God for Mountains").

Start:Stop-Start your day the Salesian way

The Sun, Edvard Munch, 1910-1911

Good morning and welcome to Start Stop. This time of year is one of new beginnings for many - back to school or university, or back to work after the holidays. For some this is an exciting time, but for others it can be daunting. It is all to easy to become distracted from the present moment and spend time worrying about the future - to wince at the number of unopened emails or feel anxious about the size of our seemingly never-shrinking to-do lists - and Christmas is only around the corner! How! are we going to fit it all in? How! will we cope?