Living every day as if it were our last
Sermon for this Sunday's Mass about how we all need to live as if this day was our last :- You can see and hear me give this Homily on...
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frmartinflatman
Dec 2, 20235 min read
God's fluid plan for us
We have a phrase in our 1st Reading today from Isaiah (63:16-17,64:1,3-8) which is a familiar one to many of us, not least because of...
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frmartinflatman
Nov 11, 20235 min read
Expressing the inexpressible
I want you to imagine that you’re living in a City in the Roman Empire at the time St Paul was writing his letters to the Churches, one...
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frmartinflatman
Nov 8, 20235 min read
Language to express the inexpressible
Here is the Teaching by Frances Flatman on next weekend's Readings :- Greek philosophers of the Classical period considered that ‘the...
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frmartinflatman
Nov 4, 20234 min read
Humbly conveying the faith
I have recently read an inspiring story on the sacrificial work of the Irish priests during their mission to China in the mid 20th...
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frmartinflatman
Nov 1, 20235 min read
To be remade in the image of Christ
Teaching by Frances Flatman on the Bible Readings for next weekend:- We are living in a period of ever increasing instability, as the...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 28, 20235 min read
Learning to thank God for everything
Those words from the Gospel today (Matt 22:34-40) ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 25, 20235 min read
No divisions between them and us for Jesus
Teaching by Frances Flatman on next weekend's Readings :- We live in a time when it is increasingly important to read the scriptures and...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 21, 20235 min read
God knows us all whoever we are
Nowadays, people jump into calling me Martin even before they know me. I found it strange at first, even a little rude; but now I have...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 18, 20235 min read
Outreach not self-preservation
There are those who believe that God intervenes in human history in ways specifically designed to ‘save’ their lot. Such a view surely...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 14, 20235 min read
Clothed by God
Many years ago I was invited by someone I knew in Oxford to visit him and his family in Pakistan. You can see and hear me give this...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 11, 20235 min read
Will we respond to God's grace?
Frances Flatman's Teachings on next weekend's Readings :- As in Matthew’s Gospel we inch ever closer to his passion and death, Jesus’...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 7, 20235 min read
Prosperity can make us spiritually blind
When I get depressed about the world, I always try to remind myself that it is in some of the darkest places in our world that most love...
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frmartinflatman
Oct 4, 20235 min read
Are we merely obedient sheep ?
Teaching by Frances Flatman on next weekend's Bible Readings :- What does and did the vineyard and the fruit of the vine symbolise in...
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frmartinflatman
Sep 30, 20235 min read
Be the church
Today Jesus warns us not just to speak the right words of faith, but to put them into practice. (Matt 21:28-32) But how do we do that?...
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frmartinflatman
Sep 27, 20235 min read
A Creed which strips us bare
Teaching by Frances Flatman on next weekend's Readings :- . Over the last few weeks, we have been discovering more and more about God’s...
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frmartinflatman
Sep 23, 20235 min read
God the crazy landlord
We are warned today, both in the 1st Reading (Isaiah 55:6-9) and in the Gospel, (Matt 20:1-16) to avoid thinking about things in a human...
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frmartinflatman
Sep 20, 20235 min read
Sharing God's quirky generosity
Teaching by Frances Flatman on next weekend's Readings :- In one of the Monty Python films the children in a school pray to a god who is...
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frmartinflatman
Sep 16, 20235 min read
The incalculable compassion of God
In our Gospel today (Matt 18:21-35) Peter is very human, just like us. He wants a simple answer on how he should behave with other...
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frmartinflatman
Sep 13, 20235 min read
We belong to the Lord. Hang on to that!
Teaching by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Bible Readings : Those familiar with the paintings of the Book of the Dead in Egyptian...
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