Dean Atkins

What’s the question?

“If you wasn’t a Christian, and you couldn’t be a Christian, what religion would you be?” She casually throws the question into the journey as we walk closer to Cardiff Bay. It’s quite some question to be asked by an eleven year old. At the beginning of the day, as we left the Betty CampbellContinue reading “What’s the question?”

What would you build?

Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for for good relationships between people of different faiths The Thought (Matthew 6:7-15) On 17 July 1757, Benjamin Franklin wrote to his wife after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck. “Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vowContinue reading “What would you build?”

Our shared home

Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for our care of and concern for the world The Thought (Matthew 6:1-6,16-18) Millions of people are displaced because of the climate crisis. The UN Refuge Agency says that “As extreme weather and environmental conditions worsen with global heating, theyContinue reading “Our shared home”

The whole world over

“How long was your journey?“ I ask. They’ve just spilled out of the coach. A large group of children are gathered on the wide pavement outside St Mary’s Church. “52 minutes,” quickly responds one lad. He’s obviously had his eye on the clock from start to finish, from the moment the coach pulled out fromContinue reading “The whole world over”

No place to call home

Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for those who are homeless and all for whom ‘home’ is not a safe place to be. The Thought (Matthew 5:43-48) “Have no fear of perfection,” said the artist Salvador Dali, ‘you will never reach it.” Yet, it’s the strivingContinue reading “No place to call home”

Happiness and Freedom

Today, as we prepare for our ‘Justice Cafe’ and welcome Jim Stewart from ‘Open Doors’ which supports persecuted Christians, we offer Mass for Christians who experience persecution throughout the world, and for religious freedom everywhere

Connect (14 June 2024)

Connecting you with the churches of South Cardiff Ministry Area in Butetown, Grangetown and Splott. (If you’d like to receive posts in your inbox then add your email address at the bottom of the page!) Refugee Week 2024 This coming week is packed with events and activities. Yes, as if you didn’t know, it’s RefugeeContinue reading “Connect (14 June 2024)”

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