Fr Timothy Radcliffe: 'What Am I Living For? Life, Death and Friendship' + VIDEO

Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP

Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP, spoke on Monday evening, 31 October, at St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London from 7-8.30pm. The title of his lecture was: 'What Am I Living For? Life, Death and Friendship'.

In this lecture Fr Timothy looks at life and mortality and the way that the gift and grace of friendship brings meaning to all we have lived through, hope for our future and upholds who we are now.

Timothy Radcliffe was Master of the Dominican Order from 1992 to 2001. He is the only member of the English Province to have held that office. He is the winner of the 2007 Michael Ramsey prize for theological writing for his book What is the Point of Being a Christian? He was also the author of The Archbishop of Canterbury's 2009 Lent Book Why Go to Church? He lives in Oxford where he is a member of the community at Blackfriars, but spends much of his year giving retreats, lectures and conference keynote addresses in the UK and overseas. His other bestselling books include Stations of the Cross, Seven Last Words, Take the Plunge, I Call You Friends and Alive in God. A man of deep faith and spiritual insight, Timothy has written honestly and movingly about his own brush with death and dependency after a major operation.

See a recording of the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC_GZZiZh74