This beautiful title for Our Lady is the patronal title of the Salesians (where this proper Office comes from) and…
“It’s like church, but for everyone.”: Schools, Messy Hospitality and the Eglise Naissant
Friday is the best day of the week in my job. Not because the weekend is close, but because Friday…
The Sodality at a year old: first Superior’s report to General Chapter
Superior’s Report Aylesford Priory May 17th, 2017 Thank you, first of all, to Sr Gemma, for a truly amazing, renewing…
Singing Daily Prayer: Music for The Divine Office and Common Worship (latest version)
The most common request from readers on closing the Company of Voices blog and beginning this new blog has been…
This is magic fruit: Of Pomegranates and Crooked Spires
Trying to find a reference in Gregory of Nyssa (in the Danielou anthology) I came across a section I had…
Leadership and subversion: Merton and his Abbot
Make Peace Before the Sun Goes down: The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox Roger Lipsey…
Welsh Sodality Talk: Mary, Messy Church and Mission
Sodality Event: Llandaff 4th May 2017. There has been a blog doing the rounds on social media – I am…
Litanies, Refuge Trees and Vietnam Vets: Ajahn Anando and paying attention
Litanies are not much in fashion these days. But I love the sense of repetition, the fervent supplication, the piling…
Heaven in Ordinary: Alan Brownjohn’s poetry of the everyday (a review)
Alan Brownjohn, The Saner Places, Enitharmon Press, 2011 Sometime in my first year as an undergraduate – so 1984/5 – …
Meeting the risen Jesus at the National Gallery: Michelangelo and Sebastiano
For some time now I have been thinking that imagination is a much under-rated faculty for prayer. There is a…
