Author Archives: 1urcher

A weekend full of invitations Penwythnos llawn o gwahoddiadau Annwyl ffrindiau/Dear Friends, Please find as a downloadable link the final communications about next weekend’s various opportunities to invite our friends and neighbours to. I am an unusual creature. I love mission … Continue reading →

A weekend of invitations on Holy Island Penwythnos llawn o wahoddiadau ar Ynys Cybi 6 piece Welsh language rock band, Calfari are headlining a concert on Friday 6th May at the ancient St Cybi’s Church in Holyhead as part of … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

  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 →

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

Dw i’n hoffi Nadolig. Ond mae’n well gen i Adfent Mae Adfent yn aros amser Mae’n rhan o stori Nadolig Dan ni’n yn paratoi ar gyfer llawer o bethau yn ystod yr Adfent. Dan ni’n ymweld a theulu Dan ni’n prynu … Continue reading →

I had a wonderful day. I have not been on a political rally since opposing the first Gulf War. I am sure there are photos of me with a SWP placard somewhere. There were a mixture of people. Politicos (Labour/Llafur, … Continue reading →