We were happy to see that Cormac Begadon’s research was featured in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday 29 June. Christopher Howse’s piece was partly based on a forthcoming publication by Cormac – ‘A case for continuity? From Liège to New Hall: the English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre’ – in which the cultural continuity from…
Dear Friends, The reflections today will, we hope, make you smile! There is an additional one focused on Mary Magdalene whose feast day is on 22nd. There are quite a number of attachments to keep you going for a couple of weeks! Next week, 27th, there won’t be a Saturday Reflection as we will be…
Dear Friends, Today most of the reflections are on the’ beauty of creation’ theme – gardens, flowers etc. Our garden is very colourful at the moment and God’s wonderful creation is so evident. I hope you have this kind of beauty near you too. Romero’s prayer is a bit different yet he uses the…
Dear Friends, Thank you, several of you, who have given us encouraging feedback on last week’s Reflection particularly on ‘Queer Freedom’ – it seems to have ‘hit the spot’ for many of you. With holidays on many of our horizons it seems strange to have ‘work’ as a theme today. But we all have tasks…
Dear Friends, At last our weather seems to be cheering up & is more like June. The attachments today include a long & challenging one. The questions in para 1 are just the questions Pope Francis is asking us to make our own. There is a ‘summertime’ one too and there is also an Iona…
Dear Friends, We hope that the first half of June has brought you many blessings – perhaps it is good to think back over that time & remind ourselves of the blessings, big or small. This week’s blessing is one from Margaret Rizza’s Fire of Love, simply called ‘A Blessing’ & we hope it will…
Dear Friends, We hope this last week has been a good one for you?? I have been disappointed in the weather – I so look forward to June but it hasn’t been great, has it? The attachments are ‘in hope’ that a real summer arrives soon. We do have a few recipients of the…
Dear Friends, The reflections today don’t have an obvious theme yet they seem to fit well together as we settle into this ‘ordinary’ time. They give me a sense of ‘feeling good’. Maybe they are a bit of an antidote to the already interminable pre-election carry on! Another four weeks to go! But we can’t…
Dear Friends, As we reach the beginning of June, we leave behind Eastertide, and the great feasts of Pentecost & Trinity & begin to get into ‘the everyday’. Personally I rather like this moment of ‘ordinary’ time. Apart from a few feasts, we will be in ordinary time now until Advent! Our attachments…
Dear Friends, With the feast of the Trinity this weekend liturgically we move once again into what is called ‘ordinary time’! Before we do that, we are sending you a few reflections that focus on each of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity – a mystery, for sure, but we hope there is something here…