On the 20th of March we remember with thanksgiving
St. Cuthbert
, the great Apostle of the North, in whose honour the
Lindesfarne Gospels
were made and on whose breast was found the
beautiful Gospel of St. John
which is our oldest complete book. And fittingly for Cuthbert, or ‘Cuddy’ as he is known affectionately in the North, was a man whose whole life was shaped and lived in and by the Gospel, by reconciliation, by good news for the poor and supremely by that free movement of the Holy spirit, flowing like water, and like the wind, blowing where it listeth. Though Cuthbert worked tirelessly for the church and for the poor he was at heart a hermit and a mystic, in intimate communion with God in his hermitage on his beloved inner Farne island . I feel a particular connection with Cuthbert and have walked on pilgrimage along…
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Malcolm Guite 