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My latest Mystery Worshipper report has been published, for any who may be interested.

Hello friends, A number of you have e-mailed me over the past couple of days to let me know that my blog seems to have been hacked into. Wor...

St Colman, pray for us! With the arrival of my monastic visitor has come my long-awaited copy of The Saint Colman Prayer Book . It has not y...

O God, Who didst vouchsafe to fill thy most blessed Confessor Benedict with the spirit of all the righteous: grant unto us thy servants that...

As webmaster, I had the painful task today of removing from my parish's website the links to, and details of, three communities which u...

Here is the Nativity Epistle from His Eminence Metropolitan LAURUS, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad: In the Name of the Father a...

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. The Incarnation of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - the teaching that the eternal God, e...

O Sapientia - 16th December (29th December) O Wisdom! which camest out of the mouth of the Most High, and reachest from one end to another,...

Here is yesterday's homily from St Petroc Monastery, for the fifth and final Sunday of Advent. THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT This is the la...

This is one of those books that I saw and rather fancied over a year ago and intended to buy for myself, but kept forgetting. Each time I r...

It was on a starry night, when the hills were bright, earth lay sleeping - sleeping calm and still; when in a cattle-shed, in a manger-bed, ...

St Augustine of Canterbury, by Aidan Hart Below is an amended form of an something that I wrote very passionately in the course of correspon...

Tomorrow's homily from the St Petroc Monastery: THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT We are now in the last leg of our examination of our lives a...

I apologise for my absence over the past couple of weeks. I haven't been online much at all as I'm still settling into my new routi...

Here is today's homily from the St Petroc Monastery. THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT As we thought about Advent last Sunday, we saw that thi...