St Nicholas

 

Today is the day we celebrate the life and kindnesses of St Nicholas of Myrna (now in modern day Turkey)
Oh St Nicholas........ Chriss Kringle, Santa Claus how did you ever become
FATHER CHRISTMAS?

What a sad sign

Who would possibly grab Hamish by the horns?
Only a Barbarian  -  I think he's beautiful.

C.S.Lewis

50 years this week since the death of C.S. Lewis.

'I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it,
but because by it I see everything else.'
RIP

Elephants

 

In 1980 1.2million elephants roamed the lands in Africa and Asia: last year (2013) their number fell to 420,000.
In less than 12 years from today if we are not very careful they will be extinct.
 This is so sad - for us and for them.

Christenings/Baptisms

Every week in every year at least 2,500 babies are baptised into the Church of England and trying
to include all the other Christian denominations makes an enormous number yet the Christian church is the most persecuted religion on the earth - please someone explain to me what are these people scared of?

Catholic Conclave: Archbishop of Canterbury lets the ecumenical cat o...

Catholic Conclave: Archbishop of Canterbury lets the ecumenical cat o...: "God has given you, and given us all, a great Pope. And he’s a great Pope of surprises… and I think people are inspired and uplifted...

This is lovely = let us hope and pray for a decade of unity.

A tour

Recently I did an educational tour of the Cathedral with a large group of excited children and when we
got to the part of the tour when I asked them to don the 'Habits' as the Monks who lived there used
to, they became an entirely different group.  The following day their lead teacher phoned
me to say thank you for the tour and asked me how I had managed to turn her unruly and
loud gang of children into such an attentive, quiet group.
Well I had to confess to her that it was nothing to do with my great talent as a guide but the affect
the wearing of the 'Habit' has on them.   I have used them with other children and it works every time.
Strange but true!