Monthly Archives: February 2016

and there was evening and morning: a second year

Posted on February 22, 2016 by 1urcher

Time flies when the proverbial is happening. In many ways, I still have to pinch myself to remember that I am the Vicar of Bro Cybi (Holy Island) on Ynys Mon. It is not a position ever imagined that I … Continue reading →

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Lent 2016.4 Broken Priest breaking bread

Posted on February 15, 2016 by 1urcher

Offeiriad calon toredig yn torri bara am byd toredig. Broken hearted priest breaks bread for a broken world. This is the stuff of deep magic. It was with some hesitancy that I took the service of Holy Communion on Sunday … Continue reading →

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Lent 2016.3 The prayers of the penitent

Posted on February 13, 2016 by 1urcher

In the last of the original Indiana Jones trilogy, the one with Sean Connery in it, Harrison Ford’s Indiana had to overcome a number of tests towards the end of the film to get to the site of the holy … Continue reading →

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Lent 2016.2 Hiraeth: beautiful and melancholy

Posted on February 12, 2016 by 1urcher

  Hiraeth is an almost untranslatable Welsh word. It means something like a longing, aching or a homesickness for something that cannot be reached or is lost. It is a week since I stood in Grenoside Crematorium in Sheffield and … Continue reading →

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Lent 2016.1 Vulnerable and Divine

Posted on February 10, 2016 by 1urcher

Remember that I am a complex vulnerable human being full of contradictions yet with the imprint of the divine #Lentbegins I am going to try to post a blog regularly during Lent. I am not sure I will make it. … Continue reading →

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