Birthday cake…

Thanks to Gemma’s cake-making skills, people enjoyed birthday cake tonight! After the top layer was eaten, the bottom layer was left: Then there was another cake to tackle! Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the cakes didn’t last past the evening… but...

C is for Christ Crucified

In the third of our alphabet series, ‘The A-Z of Christian Faith’, we looked at the letter C and concluded (from 1 Cor 1:18-25, 1 Cor 2:1-5 and 1 Cor 15:1-8) that ‘C is for Christ Crucified’. Paul makes it clear that this is the absolute...

More Palm Sunday photos

Phoenix Park was redeveloped when my son was just a child, and we have many fond memories of the initial work which turned the former slagheap into a beautiful parkland area, with artwork commemorating local history: One of his favourite parts of the park was the...

Palm Sunday at Phoenix Park

Today is Palm Sunday, and that took on a whole new meaning for me this week as I gazed at real palm trees in front of the hotel where I stayed in Malta: However, we had different kinds of palm leaves today as we joined in the ‘Spring Show’ at Phoenix Park,...