We humans are very good at thinking of God as so very far away from us, that we either stop believing in him, or only communicate with...

Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings:- Given the present climate of the times in the UK with the Tory selection of a...

Today’s Gospel (Luke 10:38-42) where poor Martha. who is busy cooking dinner is told that Mary, by sitting and listening to Jesus, has...

Frances Flatman writes on next Sunday's Readings :- Parties seem to be much in the news at present, but our Readings all look at their...

When we hear, as in our 2nd Reading (Col 1:15-20) that “Christ is the image of the unseen God”, I think we need to notice that God is...

A Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings:- Quite a lot of the time I suspect, most of us simply think of God as far...

Believe it or not, there are some people (I meet them online) who think that when a prophet like Isaiah refers to Jerusalem, as in our...

Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings :- There can be a tendency to think that, since Christianity was formed out of...

I hope you noticed the problem we face today with what Jesus says at the end of the Gospel that we have just heard (Luke 9:51-62) You can...

Our Readings for the 13th Ordinary Sunday are all about a radical change of status in life wrought by the grace of Christ. Now many of us...

I was asked the other day why we make such a fuss about the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament when Jesus is actually present in...

The Feast of Corpus Christi celebrates Jesus; his selfless offering of himself to God the Father; and as he instructed his closest...

In one sense, of course, we can never understand God, and so can never understand God as Trinity; but that doesn’t mean that we cannot...

Frances Flatman reflects on the Readings for Trinity Sunday :- What does it mean to ‘belong’? Last long weekend we experienced the...

Think of a couple who are having trouble with their marriage or partnership. The man says “I tell her I love her but that doesn’t seem to...

Frances Flatman reflects on the Readings for Pentecost When I became a Catholic, the wife of the then Bishop of Oxford remarked ‘We had...

How can we see glory ? Can I suggest that it is rather like asking if we can see light; for though we can see what light illuminates,...

Reflection on the Readings for Easter 7 by Frances Flatman Today’s Gospel, (John 17:20-26) really is one of those WOW moments, when we...

Someone came up to me in tears the other day. We were celebrating the life of her Dad, and she said through her tears “Father, where is...

Frances Flatman reflects on next Sunday's Readings : As we get close to Pentecost our Readings turn decisively towards the sense of the...