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Trinity Sunday 7th June, 2020 I wrote the other day of my love of letters as a form of correspondence. I have received another 'corker'...

Saturday 6th June, 2020 Another email arrived this morning telling of the death of Catherine Davenport, one of my Mother's closest...

St Boniface. Friday, 5th June, 2020 I broke my usual pandemic timetabled routine again today. When out last Tuesday I had noted that the...

St Charles Lwanga and companions.  Thursday 4th June, 2020 This feast day of the African martyrs once again brings to the fore the...

Wednesday 3rd June, 2020 I am a letter man. I love to write them and I love to receive them. I find it invigorating, challenging and...

Tuesday, 2nd June, 2020 A strange day. My basic routine during this lock down has changed from pre pandemic days but a new one has been...

Monday 1st June, 2020 I watched in awe and admiration as the SpaceX rocket lifted off at the NASA base in the USA. The incredible genius...

Pentecost Sunday, 31st May, 2020 I have read two passages this morning which have settled me. First from W.B.Yeats: "Hands, do what...

Saturday, 30th May, 2020 Has it ever been possible to move from visions and dreams to reality? From the glorious visions of Isaiah where...

St Mary Magdalene d' Pazzi.  Friday, 29th May, 2020 " At the dawn of the twenty first century Home Sapiens began to break the laws of...

Thursday 28th May, 2020 I received a letter from an old acquaintance I met years ago in Suffolk. She is a Jehovah's Witness. She knocked...

Pope St John 1st. Wednesday 27th May, 2020. I was reading the online diaries of various medics and nurses from the Lombardy Region of...

St Philip Neri.  Tuesday 26th May 2020 The sun was shining at 4am when a loud bird, just outside my window, joined the dawn chorus. A...

St Bede the Venerable.  Monday, 26th May, 2020 Another friend has died. Not Covid 19 but cancer. He was a sea faring man and looked the...

Sunday, 24th May, 2020. We have had three days of strong winds up here on the Tay in Scotland. It dropped for a while last night but has...

Saturday 23rd May, 2020. I have mentioned my friend Peter Youngman before. I lamented that I had been unable to visit him of late, first...

St Rita of Cascia.  Friday, 22nd May, 2020 I am almost getting in to a rut. Each morning I focus my iPad on the Augustinians of O'Connell...

Thursday.  Ascension Day, 2020. I love people. I love their kindness and quirkiness and their unexpectedness. I love the rogues and the...

Wednesday, 20th May 2020 What a mixed morning it has been but perhaps all mornings and lives are mixed! Promises, or should I say...

Pope St Peter 5th Celestine.  Tuesday 19th May, 2020 I usually take a short stroll each day. I take it for the exercise. It is not always...