Fr Luke Miller

The City New Year service at S Michael Cornhill  is attened by the Lord Mayor in full regalia. It is one of only a few times in the year that the Lord Mayor wears the ' Collar of Esses ', a livery collar which, though repaired and remade, goes back at least to the reign of Henry VIII. It is extrarodinary to contemplate the nearness of the past when such an item is in use. It gives connexion with out predecessors and is a tangible link with those who have gone before. Of course the thing is that human history is not that long. near the entrance to the British Museum is the ' Battlefield Palette ' about a century older than the Narmer Palette , which is the document with which written Egyptian history begins. It is about 5,000 years old. Not a very long time in the scheme of things. There has been a church on the site on Cornhill for a good proportion of that time, the first one having been built on the edge of the Forum of Roman London. The Battlefield Palette ...

Once a month I go to Mass with my family and am just on the ordinary rota in the parish. This was today's sermon. God has called you and he will not fail you. 1 Thess 5:24 Last week I went to a meeting in the Bank of England about how to build trust in the financial services sector. The things I end up doing for the Kingdom! Whenever you make an investment there is the warning: ‘past performance is not a guarantee of future results.’ Now that may be true in the world of finance, but in our consideration of God and His care for us, past performance is precisely the guarantee of future results. The idea that God is faithful, that ‘He will do this,’ and that He acts consistently with His past actions and with His word, is central to our hope and to the way we live as Christians. God has called you and he will not fail you. In advent we are preparing to celebrate the birth of the Saviour in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. That moment is the centre of History: He was hoped for, ...