Each year when we celebrate the feast of St Bede I am thrilled by the knowledge that the little boy Bede grew up in my home town, Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear. Down by the river, now called Monkwearmouth, Bede took his first steps in the monastic life. Although Bede’s daily life and my daily life are quite different, we share …
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Come with grace unearned, unsought…
‘Come with grace unearned, unsought’ is the last line of the hymn: Spirit of the Lord, come down… written by the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey. It’s a beautifully written hymn which invokes the Spirit and is used by my community in the liturgy between Ascension and Pentecost. We sang this hymn for the first time …