FITZROY’S MORNING SERVICE ON LINE NOW - Apologies that wifi issues have caused Fitzroy streaming to let you all down these last couple of weeks after hard work from the faithful today’s service is now available... sstockman.substack.com/p/fit…

Fitzroy Super Sunday... get it in your diary! EVERYBODY welcome!

COME, COME AWAY - A romantic invitation to Janice to head off with me to the our wee hideaway at the sea... as recorded on the album Grace Notes by Stevenson (me) & Samuel (Sam Hill Jr) sstockman.substack.com/p/com…

CROÍA (LITTLE HEART) - short blessing... from a baptism of our friends’ daughter Rose Croía... an old Christmas poem... my sermon tomorrow on the Aaronic Blessing... thanks too to Fr Dominic McGrattan... sstockman.substack.com/p/cro…

EVERY SINGLE DAY (Remembering the Shankill Bomb) - the useless vulgar violence... the waste of life... the trauma left.. the hearts still aching... as we remember the Shankill bomb today, some remember every single day... sstockman.substack.com/p/eve…

one of our finest songwriters gives us all his best lyrics in a beautiful book...

FITZROY SUPER SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 15, 2026 - I cannot say how excited I am that we have two internationally renowned speakers on prophetic topics of the day in Fitzroy and Clonard/Fitzroy on the very same Sunday... sstockman.substack.com/p/fit…

PAUL SIMON - THE QUIET CELEBRATION CONCERT - In his mid 80s... Paul Simon gifts us a live record... where his sparse meditative Psalms musically inform hits and deep cuts... a special thing... sstockman.substack.com/p/pau…

JEANINE CUMMINS - AMERICAN DIRT - NI Book Week... here’s a recent favourite... dramatic escape from Mexican cartels through the border into America... page turning... brilliant... and she pulled pints in Belfast in a younger life... sstockman.substack.com/p/jea…

ANTHONY TONER - DISTANCE AND LOVE - Harpur Hill’s finest poet releases his first book of poetry... poems we have all had disguised as songs for the past 25 years... It is great. sstockman.substack.com/p/ant…

THE STREETS OF VAN MORRISON - In 1967 The Beatles looked to places in Liverpool to inspire songs - Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. A year later on Astral Weeks Van Morrison went to belfast for his own muse... he’s never left... sstockman.substack.com/p/the…

every day things we do can do transcendent things...

A Bruce Cockburn covers album of songs from his younger years... finger dancing melodies... sparse and sublime...

BRUCE COCKBURN - THE BLOOD OF OTHERS - After O Sun O Moon I was excited to hear of a new Cockburn record, then I heard it was a covers album BUT in the end I could take another one of these... sstockman.substack.com/p/bru…

THE EVERYDAY THINGS THAT WE DO - Angels are all around us, in us, working out of us... ordinary colours and rhymes... dancing in us and around us... sstockman.substack.com/p/the…

U2's OCTOBER IS 45 - A Personal Look Back - NOT the blog about the song but about the record’s release in 1981, near my 20th birthday... and my cracking open some record tokens and how it gave feeling to my innocent new vibrant faith... sstockman.substack.com/p/oct…

my thoughts on City... you've been asking

CITY TIL I DIE - SURMISE OF A FAN - As a Man City fan I have felt a criminal for a few weeks... felt numb... but here is my first, and I imagine not my last attempt, to put it in words... sstockman.substack.com/p/cit…

a prayer I pray on my birthday... a life full of good... and full of what needs fixed... sstockman.substack.com/p/101…

Something I learned off the Traitors TV show... and used today on my birthday!