May I speak in the name of the living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit In the blink of an eye everything changed There was before and now there is after Before it was dark After it is light Before there was grief After there is joy Before there was despair After there is hope But to be in the after you have to have walked through the before And the before ended in fear and confusion The followers of Jesus of Nazareth were in total shock from the events of Thur

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and redeemer And it was night Judas, one of the twelve, had betrayed Jesus, and Jesus had known he would Betrayal is the most visceral and agonising of human emotions, and one many of us have felt. We see Jesus at his most human His confrontation with betrayal has left him “troubled in spirit.” He’s agitated, stirred up, and shaken. We can so easily imagine wha

This is a week like no other: Jesus’ arrest, trial, beating, death, and burial. The abrupt shift from “Hosanna” to “Crucify him” is very hard to take … we want to wave our palm branches a little longer before folding and twisting them into crosses. On Good Fridays in my chapel childhood the service was at 11 0’clock in the morning. And in the afternoon we’d do something quiet – well, nothing was open in those days! We’d often go to Lamorran Woods, near Truro, , I have stron

22nd March 2026 Pretend grief isn’t real.Pretend sorrow is something believers should outgrow.Pretend that faith makes us immune to fear. But the Gospel does not allow us to pretend.And neither does Jesus. As we stand on this Fifth Sunday of Lent, the Church draws us close to the tomb of Lazarus. Not simply to witness a miracle, but to look into the heart of Christ at a moment when he knows something the others do not fully understand—his own death is coming. The shadow of th