Dear friends, In March Dave Cockle, who belongs to our congregation, received a lifetime achievement award from Enfield Council. The…

Dear friends, I wish each of you a joyful Easter. This is a time to remember those whom we love…

Dear friends, On Sunday 1st February we kept the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, also…

Dear friends, Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the…

Dear friends, Might I suggest some practices for all of us Advent people during these weeks before Christmas? First, let…

Dear friends, This Sunday we keep the Feast of All Saints. Throughout the ages, the examples of the Saints’ lives…

Dear friends, This week we celebrate the appointment of our very own Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, as the new…

Dear friends, In Luke 14 we are told that the Jewish leaders and Pharisees “were watching Jesus closely” – that’s…

Love needs to be learned.A great saint once told this story. “Once upon a time a man went to the…

Dear friends, There is a wonderful very beautiful hymn which I am very fond of, which you will find in…

Dear friends, An old lady once said of a preacher, “That gentleman just opens heaven to me, and I can…

Dear friends, The Gospel reading [on Easter Sunday] tells us that Easter is a day of barely suppressed excitement. And…

Dear Friends, Dear friends, Our Lent course this year has been following short video reflections from Richard Sewell, Dean of…

Dear Friends, Is he going to be all right? Is it going to be all right? That’s a very urgent…

Congratulations to James and Nana on the birth of Thaleia, a sister for Damaris. Dear Friends, The recent difficulties the…

The picture above was taken in the Winter of 1961 and shows members of St Mary Magdalene Dear Friends, Be…

Dear Friends, In Advent we can discover the difference between our understanding of Christ and the Church and the reality.…

Dear Friends,Do you believe in miracles? But then, what is a miracle? Well I don’t think that a miracle is…

Dear Friends, Our dear sister Rita died on Sunday night. Her daughter told me that some of her last words…

Dear Friends, One of my favourite films is High Society. Some people think the version called the Philadelphia Story is…

Dear Friends, I confess I always find it interesting to see what gigs a patron saint gets when they get…

Dear Friends, Michael Aylmer is to be made a Deacon on the Feast of St Peter, this Saturday at St…

Dear Friends, St Cyril was bishop in Jerusalem from c350-351 AD until 386 AD. His catechetical lectures have been called…

Dear Friends,In Lent a group of us met to study the Gospel of John with the help of a commentary…

Dear Friends, Christ is risen! This event is so wonderful that a special word has been invented to describe it.…

Dear Friends,Lent is a season of 40 days of repentance and preparation for the joys of Easter. Lent starts on…

Dear Friends, I commend this prayer of Thomas Merton to you. “My Lord God, I have no idea where I…

Dear Friends, The Bible is like a five-act drama. In the beginning is God who is Almighty Love and dwells…

Dear Friends, The weeks before Christmas are one of the busiest times of the year for a priest but each…

Dear Friends, This Sunday is kept as the last Sunday after Trinity. Trinity Sunday was twenty one weeks ago on…

Dear Friends, A Christian conservation group is fighting the Ghana government in court over plans to mine bauxite in the…

Dear Friends, Another football tournament, another messaging own goal for the leadership of the Church of England. A couple of…

Dear Friends, A hundred years ago an artist sat looking out of the small window of his studio in a…

Dear Friends, This is the period called Petertide, after the Feast of St Peter on the 29th of June, and…

Dear Friends, How do we pray when it can seem so difficult sometimes? Perhaps we need to hand over our…

Dear Friends, I wonder how you are feeling today? In 2020 we were worried because of the corona virus, now…

Dear Friends, Picture an infant waking into a new world and seeing as the lovely, joyful and tender smile of…

Dear Friends, The Lenten season is meant to kindle a “bright sadness” in our hearts. It’s aim is to help…

Dear Friends, The crisis of faith of our time has been called a crisis of hope. Perhaps those around us…

Dear Friends, The great turning point in In Memoriam, the Victorian poet Tennyson’s great exploration of time and eternity, mortality…

Dear Friends, The weeks before Christmas are one of the busiest times of the year for a priest but each…

Dear Friends, What we celebrate on the Feast of All Souls is the triumph of hope. Even the dead who,…

Dear Friends, There’s a sense of crisis in our nation and across Europe with war in Ukraine, and fear of…

Dear Friends I came across a two-word discipleship challenge. The two words are “over” and “under”. Take for example the…

Dear Friends Real Christianity is demanding. But before any demand is made of us, Christ dies for our sins. The…

Dear Friends Our beautiful daughter was born at 12:18pm, Tuesday 28th June, at Kingston Hospital, weighing 6lb 9oz (2,975g), Damaris…

Dear Friends The message of the Ascension is not that Christ vanishes beyond earth’s orbit, but that he enters the…

Dear Friends It’s the most natural thing to do when you have been bereaved and are confused, lost and afraid,…

Dear Friends A great evil is unfolding before our eyes. Let us, then, pray for Ukraine, that Almighty God would…

Dear Friends At the request of the Church Assembly in 1954 Geoffrey Fisher and Cyril Garbett, archbishops respectively of Canterbury…

Dear Friends On Sunday 30th January we keep the Feast of the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin called Candlemas.…

Dear Friends These are the words of the last verse of a medieval carol: “Honour to Christ, that now was…

Dear Friends In 2017 Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, was suffering from a prolonged crisis as a…

Dear friends, Sittings in both Houses begin with prayers. In the House of Commons the Speaker’s Chaplain usually reads the…

Dear friends, Remembering the people of Afghanistan I found this prayer to say for them. A Prayer for Afghanistan: O…

St Augustine heard a voice from on high that said: “I am the food of grown men; grow, and you…

Gathered for the Eucharist and nourished by the Bread of Life, we are a sign to the world of God’s…

A prayer of St Gregory Nazianzus: May Jesus give strength and power unto his people and Himself present to Himself…