Category: Chapter Letter

Connecting with the Easter story This year, as we journey through Holy Week, our shared experience of dark days, trials, isolation and death, draw us even more closely into the…

Looking toward Holy Week at the cathedral This year we will be able to mark Holy Week by gathering for worship in a way that was not possible in Holy…

Being human; being children of God The desert is “where God happens’, Rowan Williams tells us, and this is why the story of Jesus in the desert is not to…

Focussing on what actually matters As we begin our Lenten pilgrimage, I am sure that we are all doing so with a mixture of feelings.  One thing that has struck…

Gilbert of Sempringham: an example of a life transformed and potential realised, warts and all! What I find particularly inspiring about the story of St Gilbert is the way he…

Generosity of love will help heal the tears The last couple of weeks have been among the most painful in my recent memory. The continued gathering of dozens of people…

“Be still and know that I am God.” We have witnessed some extraordinary and alarming scenes this week as protesters stormed the Capitol, the very seat of democracy in America.…

With such big and deeply serious concerns engulfing our world at present it is easy to feel overwhelmed and anxious. To find ourselves sinking or being oppressed by a sense…

As I sit down and write this Chapter Letter a large removal lorry is parked outside the Subdeanery being loaded with our goods and chattels so they can be taken…

At morning prayer each day during this Kingdom season we have been using the canticle of the New Creation from the prophet Isaiah. I will make a way in the…

A time to remember There is no doubt that the year 2020 is, for better or for worse, going to be remembered! Pandemic, lockdowns, American presidential elections, Brexit and with…

From the Dean: We are delighted at the recent announcement that Canon Nick Brown is to be our new Precentor. He will be joining us on 18th December. I have…