Other Talks and Homilies
This year's Easter messaage from Bishop Declan. The message is sent to local media in the Clifton Diocese. You can aslo isten to Bishop Declan’s message for Easter.
This year's Christmas messaage from Bishop Declan. The message is sent to local media in the Clifton Diocese. You can aslo isten to Bishop Declan’s message for Christmas.
When I look around I often see people who are fearful and wounded but also a community of hope. What brings about that hope is an encounter with Christ. Pope Benedict said Christianity is not an ideology, nor a set of rules but rather an encounter with Christ and all that follows from that.
Read more about Talk on Health & Healing, at Wells Cathedral »
“Forgive me”, I heard a woman say the other day, “I’m a bit old fashioned. I still think Christmas has something to do with the birth of Christ.” It is strange that Christ should have to fight for a place at Christmas because without the birth of Jesus, what would we be celebrating? Yet on the first Christmas, there was something of a struggle by Joseph to find a place for Mary and the expected child. In the midst of a bustling Bethlehem, caught up with the rush of a census, there was no room at the Inn. Finding room for Jesus has always been something of a challenge.
Thank you for inviting me to present these certificates. I would like to thank Wesley College for this partnership with the Diocese of Clifton. I hope for all involved it has been an enriching and stimulating experience and long may it continue. It is a good expression of ecumenical co-operation between various Christian traditions, each bringing its own gifts to enrich the whole.
Very often, we have a tendency to see first what is wrong with life rather than what is right. I asked somebody the other day, how he would describe this generation of which we are part and he used the words – demanding, unforgiving, comsumeristic but then added – however people still hope that they can find happiness and enjoy life rather than be disappointed and dissatisfied.
Read more about Homily in Clifton Cathedral, Bristol during Mass broadcast by BBC Radio 4 »
I was listening to a radio report the other day in which it was pointed out that the overall crime rate in England and Wales has fallen for the past eleven years. Yet the perception is different. Many people think that the crime rate is on the increase and this instils fear.
Read more about Pentecost Article for the Swindon Evening Advertiser »
Thank you for inviting me to be part of your service for Christian unity. I think this is an important week because it reminds us that ecumenism is not something extra to our commitment to Christ but an essential part of that commitment.
Read more about Talk Given at the Counterslip Baptist Church, Bristol for Christian Unity Week »
A quote from a conversation I had with someone recently: “The world today is so bleak and full of fear, we could all so easily be drawn into relationships in which we hate one another.”
Thank you for your invitation to be with you today. I must admit to feeling a little hesitant since I know some of you and I am aware you know more than I do about the every day running of our schools and the requirements of education law.
Read more about Re-imagining the Catholic School – What is it all about? »
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