The Mass that Dances Preface A Communion Setting for choir, congregation, and organ (Soprano solo and ad lib bongos in optional Lord’s Prayer setting) My aspiration is that people will be moved to sing this Mass with fervour and emotion, that it helps them to feel involved in an atmosphere of worship. It [...]

A Psalm of Thanks My incorrigible friend Hugh Allen, sports car driving retired rural dean, ceramicist and writer, wished to respond in faith to the 2020 Covid epidemic. So at the height of the pandemic, about a month after lockdown, he wrote, in vision and anticipation, a Haiku poem of thanksgiving for recovery. I [...]

What is the Lord’s meaning? One could be forgiven for hoping that there would be a substantial memorial to Julian of Norwich, the first woman to write a book in English. There is the most dignified and gracious statue on the West front of Norwich Cathedral where only the title of the book she [...]

My Beloved Son It takes something to ‘trigger’ me to write a composition. I’ve found it easier since the introduction of music software, but in the manuscript days the thought of carrying terabytes of evolving information in my head whilst still having to do the washing up was frankly daunting. I read that St Paul’s [...]