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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath
One of the most common things I hear in the confessional is people confessing impatience and anger. But are impatience and anger a sin? We often confess things that make us feel unhappy about [...]
Mystical Visions: Appearance and Reality
On Sunday, as always on the Second Sunday in Lent, we were given the gospel account of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and in Matthew's version it is clear that the disciples experienced a [...]
The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust
The fourth in my series on the Deadly Sins for Lent 2026 Four of the seven deadly sins are sins of the flesh: Greed, Gluttony, Sloth and Lust. Three are sins of the mind [...]
The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
The third in my Lent 2026 series on the Seven Deadly Sins. Of all the seven deadly sins Gluttony is at once the grossest and the(apparently) least serious. It's so easy to both be [...]
The Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
The second in my Lent 2026 series on the seven deadly sins. Greed is right up there with Sloth, Lust and Gluttony as one of the gross sins of the flesh. Like the other [...]
The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
For Lent 2026: Here begins a series here on the seven deadly sins. First one is the one most forgotten or dismissed as unimportant: Sloth. The common understanding of sloth is probably extreme laziness: [...]
