I am the gate of the sheepfold [1]. Jesus is our access to where we want to be. He welcomes us, first, to himself. We go in, not brushing past him, but being helped through by him. He is gate and gatekeeper.
Saint Augustine speculated that in heaven the glorified bodies of the martyrs might bear some traces of their sufferings. ‘Such scars will not be blemishes’ he wrote, ‘but, rather, marks of honour.
Though we currently find ourselves in a truly unprecedented time in history, the Jesuits in Britain Archives wishes to celebrate Easter as much as is safely possible to do.
‘You’re not as hot as I am’ would not have been part of any conversation before Covid 19 but each day at St Beuno’s taking our temperatures gives us some indication that the measures we are taking to stay well and healthy are working.
