Teaching by Frances Flatman on next weekend's Readings : Learning to become a Christian, a member of and ‘in’ Christ, is a lifelong work...

The two great saints we celebrated on Thursday (St Peter and St Paul) are regarded as the giants of the Church, as heroes, because they...

Here is Frances Flatman's Reflection on next weekend's Bible Readings :- I think we are asked to explore precisely why in today’s...

In the time before the Covid Lockdown, we Christians used to do a house to house collection for Christian Aid, trying to knock on every...

Teaching by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings :- Despite the fact that we in the West dislike and resent the idea of suffering,...

All our Readings today remind us that as Christians we have been given a new status and so we need to live up to it. You can see and her...

Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for next Sunday (11th in Ordinary Time) To whom and how does God reveal himself? Ancient...

Why did Jesus choose to be especially present to us in bread? You can see and hear me give this Homily on Youtube....

Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for Corpus Christi Most of us have been brought up with the understanding that we are...

HOMILY for Trinity Sunday (June 4th) The Christian teaching that God is wholly other, and yet is also completely and fully present in the...

A Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for Trinity Sunday : Our Readings, especially due to their brevity, do not seem...

In order to understand more fully what the Pentecost experience means, as told us in our 1st Reading, (Acts 2:1-11) we need remember who...

Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for Pentecost We all think that we know these Readings for Pentecost so well that we do not...

Have you ever thought what the word “Glory” means? You can see and hear me give this Homily on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings (21st May 2023) Most of us who have lost a loved person, either through death or...

One of the things that saddens me most about us humans is that when we disagree with someone we begin to abuse them, to say unpleasant...

Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings :- What do we mean by ‘knowing’ someone or something? Most of the time I suspect...

I was struck by the wise words of a character in a Film I watched the other day. He said : “Music is wonderful because you don’t have to...

Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings :- Easter 5 The disciples, like us, had to learn to appreciate what their...

I have been watching Series 3 of “The Chosen” recently, which is an imaginative dramatisation of the Gospels, and one which feels much...