Cathedral News

Bishop Michael requests prayer for participants in the Synodal Assembly in Rome.

A weekly prayer meeting for young people aged 18-35.

Jesus told many parables to describe his heavenly Father. It is all too easy to attribute human qualities to God like those of a stern judge, a tyrannical king or a teacher assigning grades.

Peter probably thought he was being very generous in suggesting to Jesus that he might forgive his brother seven times. Rabbinical teaching had required only three times.

Ezekiel was one of the major prophets. He lived in the sixth century BC and was a priest who was attached to the temple staff in Jerusalem.

The subject of the popular carol, St Wenceslas is remembered on 28 September.

Jesus is beginning to prepare his disciples for his coming death. He must have known that his challenges to the establishment of the day would bring this about.

The reading from Isaiah refers to Shebna, who was the steward of Hezekiah, King of Judah.

There seems to be a stark contrast between the reading from Kings and  Matthew’s gospel. Elijah found God, not in the violence of natural phenomena, but in the gentle breeze.

St Helena was born between 246 and 248 AD. It is thought that she was a Greek and came from Drepanum in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor, modern Turkey.