by revd | Jan 2, 2026 | Faith Shapers
Academically brilliant as an Oxford University student, in 1866 Gerard Manley Hopkins left the Anglican Church, to which both of his parents were deeply committed, to become a convinced Roman Catholic. Following his personal ‘conversion’, he obeyed an inner ‘call’ to...
by revd | Sep 5, 2025 | Believers
Only the present is thy part and fee And happy thou, If, though thou didst not beat thy future brow, Thou could’st well see What present things required of thee. They ask enough; why should’st thou further go? Raise not the mud Of future depths, but drink...
by revd | Aug 24, 2025 | Humankind
In life I worked hard and achieved a great deal but in the end I achieved nothing. Solo Nemo
by revd | Aug 8, 2025 | Christ-likeness
I come in the little things, Saith the Lord: Yea! On the glancing wings Of eager birds, the softly pattering feet Of furred and gentle beasts, I come to meet Your hard and wayward heart. In bright brown eyes That peep from out the brake, I stand confest. On every nest...
by revd | May 2, 2025 | Our Father
All things rising, all things sizing Mary sees, sympathising With that world of good, Nature’s motherhood. Their magnifying of each its kind With delight calls to mind How she did in her stored Magnify the Lord. Gerard Manley Hopkins...
