Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. Psalm 127:1 As my family and I prepare to say a very fond farewell to this beautiful parish, the last few months for me have been a season to really reflect, in prayer, on change. The change over the last 12 months and indeed over the last 5 years that I have been privileged to see in our church’s corporate life, in amazing individuals, groups and...

The Way Home So far in the Triduum, as we have travelled with Jesus from the Last Supper to the resurrection we have been exploring the theme of home. On Maundy Thursday, in the evening, we talked about the promise of home, as we gave thanks for the Last Supper, we remembered how Jesus made a covenant, agreed a literal mortgage with us to save us, and in which He pays in full through His broken body and His shed blood. On Good Friday we talked about the cost of home as we remembered that...

The Price of Home Over the Triduum as we journey with Jesus from the table of the Last Supper to the Cross to the empty tomb we are doing so alongside the theme of home. Yesterday we looked at how we entered into a covenant, into a mortgage with Christ at the Last Supper, and today we are looking at Jesus paying the price of that covenant with His own body on the cross. When we think of our home, that sense of home is nearly always associated with a building. Think of your childhood homes,...