Category Archives: Chaplain’s Musings
Chaplain’s Musings – January 2023
Dear members of St Catherine’s in Stuttgart and in the diaspora As the working / school year resumes – if I haven’t already seen you this year – may I wish you every blessing in this year – in the … Continue reading
Christmas Blessings from the Chaplain
Chaplain’s Musings for Advent
1 CORINTHIANS13 (Advent and Christmas version) If I bake a Christmas cake and dozens of mince pies but have not love – I’m just another harassed family cook. If I decorate my house with outdoor fairy lights and a twinkling … Continue reading
Chaplain’s Musings – ‘seeing out’ the year 2022
‘as the winds of winter gather, do not forsake us, o God’ Psalm 71 I take this Psalm refrain as both literal for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and also as metaphor for anywhere in our broken world. … Continue reading
Chaplain’s Musings on Peace
#thoughtforthisweek Not so many years ago I wrote this time of year beginning with: “What really is the difference between the commemoration of an atrocity and the perpetuation of a grievance?” Some version of this question (though usually more emotive … Continue reading
A Harvest Grace…
There will be Harvest Hymns next Sunday (2nd October) and you can still bring non-perishable foodstuffs and/or financial gifts for the Schwäbische Tafel as part of our – ‘Those who have – share the Harvest’.
Summer Prayers – Wk 3
Peace be to this home And all who dwell here Peace be to those who enter And to those who depart.