Category: Chapter Letter

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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? .…

This Chapter Letter will be available at church on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2018, as we remember those fallen in war on the centenary of the Armistice. In the words…

November is a month when we do a great deal of remembering. First the Church’s calendar brings us All Saints, when we remember and celebrate the heroes of the Christian…

In our fast moving 21st century world, for many of us life seems to be endlessly busy, even frantic at times. There seems to be so many competing demands on…

Sunday 30 September to Saturday 13 October 2018 On the 27th September, the church remembers Vincent de Paul. He had been educated by a Franciscan order and was ordained in…