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“Do not abandon yourselves to despair.” Pope John Paul II implored, “We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”

St Martin’s goes by many names which I sometimes believe can aggrandise us a little: The ‘Royal Parish Church’, (well there are some very uncomfortable antique royal chairs).

My boss in my last job was often heard to say with regard to a tricky issue “You can’t boil the ocean”.

This year I’m watching the steady increase in daylight hours with heightened interest, along with the appearance of the blue of iris flowers and the yellow of daffodils in my garden.

Last week, BBC Radio 4’s Positive Thinking explored the question of ‘how to be happy’.

At our Lent Group in which we are reflecting on John’s Gospel, this week we looked at the Wedding of Cana.

In her poem, Prospective Immigrants, Please Note, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), invites her readers to consider a rich definition of immigrants.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th century poem Parlement of Foules contains what is probably the first written reference to the idea that St. Valentine’s Day is a special day for lovers.

The pandemic, undiscriminating in its cruelty, has claimed the life of Captain Sir Tom Moore, aged 100.