Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin on 2 January 1873 in Alençon, in the North of France. Her mother was a lace-maker and her father a jeweler and watchmaker. One of five sisters, four of the girls entered the religious life. In Thérèse’s case she was only 15 years old but her […]
Sermon Topic: Praying With Holy Men and Holy Women
Take Up and Read
My assignment today is to share something about Augustine, the bishop of Hippo in North Africa, something about his theology, his prayers, his influence. He was born in AD 354, in what is now Algeria; he died in the year 430. By that time he was already one of the most influential theologians in the […]
Henri Nouwen: Being Church
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Henri Nouwen died only 20 years ago, yet his writings and his works on spirituality and prayer have changed millions of lives. Born in Holland, became a Roman Catholic priest in 1957. He taught at the University of Notre Dame, and Yale and Harvard […]
On Michael Ramsey
He was a huge man – intellectually as much as physically – and it is hard to forget the sight of him lumbering towards you with that twinkle in his eyes shining out from his huge bushy white eye-brows. I first met Michael Ramsey in 1978 when I left Hull to read Theology in Durham […]
