Posts from April 2025
Pope Francis RIP
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Pope Francis. His twelve years as leader of the Roman Catholic Church have been marked by a humility, warmth of personality and commitment to social justice and environmental issues that were the hallmarks of the Saint whose name he took on being elected Pope. His strong Christian faith and attractive manner of expressing it endeared him to so many of other traditions and of none. May he…
A message from Canon Tony Monds
… for all of you at CCL in our prayers over the coming years. God bless you in all that you do for the Lord – and thank you.
Redemption: thoughts for Holy Week
At the beginning of Lent, many of us may resolve to give up something – or, indeed, to take up something – as part of our discipline of ‘fasting’ during the season. And, rather as with New Year resolutions, we can soon find that we have not managed to maintain our fast. This is just a normal part of our being human and we should not beat ourselves up over it. We certainly shouldn’t despair and abandon all Lenten observance until we try…
The tension mounts
This Sunday, the fifth in Lent, is traditionally called Passion Sunday. It marks a slight change in gear as we move towards Holy Week which begins on Palm Sunday (13 April) in a week’s time. The Gospel for Passion Sunday begins ‘Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany …’. For we who already know the story, the tension mounts because we know that it is in Jerusalem that the events of Holy Week will be played out and that Bethany is…