Chapter Letter 08.06.2019
Polyphony /pəˈlɪf(ə)ni/ Noun: the musical style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonising with each other. Sunday 9 June is Pentecost – it used…
Chapter Letter 24.05.19
This coming Thursday (30 May) is one of the great Festivals of the Church when we celebrate Ascension Day. Christ is taken from us into heaven so that God’s great…
Chapter Letter 10.05.19
One of my favourite post-Easter bible passages is John 21. Jesus encounters the disciples fishing, encouraging them to put the net on the other side of the boat and calls…
“May you live in interesting times” “May you live in interesting times.” This is a phrase many of us will be familiar with. Dating from the 19th century, at first…
Chapter Letter 14.04.19
As I write this Chapter Letter, we and all Christian people the world over stand on the brink of Holy Week and Easter. This year, as every year, during this…
Chapter Letter 31.03.19
Passiontide begins on Sunday 7 April. In these last two weeks of Lent, leading to Easter, we consider Jesus’ time in Jerusalem. We reflect on the revelation of Jesus’ divinity…
Chapter Letter 17.03.19
Lent is a time of prayer and fasting or abstinence. So, too, are Ember Days. There are three Ember Days four times a year, called Embertides, during which we pray…
Chapter Letter 03.03.19
On Wednesday 6 March, we begin our observance of Lent. It is an opportunity for us to renew and revitalise our faith. Lent developed from a time of instruction, prayer,…
Chapter Letter 17.02.2019
In the Westminster Shorter Catechism, described as The Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines published in 1647 at a synod of Scottish and English theologians, a key question is…
Chapter Letter 20.01.19
I sit down to write this Chapter Letter on the Feast day of Antony of Egypt. St. Antony took to heart and lived out the gospel charge, “If you would…
Chapter Letter 23.12.18
Sacred Space on 16th December took as its theme ‘Encountering Angels’. Angels are a difficult thing to get our heads round! Yet our faith tells us that angels are all…
Chapter Letter 9.12.18
If I asked you to sum up the life in the cathedral during the month of December in one word, I wonder which word you would choose? Busy, perhaps? .…