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A question I get asked more than any other in the context of my work, particularly at this time of year, is: “what should I do if someone asked me for money on the street”?

It was once the custom for each chapter of the Dominican friars to hold a solemn chapter meeting on Christmas Eve.

The path out of homelessness is tough to walk alone.

Our kitchen looks out to a beautiful beech tree.

The barista’s face dropped when I said the word.

A soldier’s death, that ‘ultimate sacrifice’, deserves the elegance and beauty of ‘The Last Call’, that is bugled at military funerals and all around Britain this weekend.

St Martin’s is a special place.

Last Sunday, some of our St Martin’s groups reflected on God’s most important commandment, in the light of the war in Israel/Palestine.

As I write this piece for the Newsletter, over 4,000 people are known to have been killed in what the United Nations has described as the ‘unprecedented human catastrophe’ that is taking place in Israel and Gaza.