Dear Friends, We hope that Easter week has been a good time for you & that you have been able to ‘feast’ a bit rather than ‘fast’! (whatever those words ‘fasting’ & ‘feasting’ mean for you – not necessarily just food & drink!) We aim to share several Easter reflections with you over the next…
We are planning another pilgrimage from 22-27 April 2025, journeying along the newly-established St Patrick’s Way in the North of Ireland. The pilgrimage is open to all faiths and none and is aimed at being accessible to everyone – walkers and non-walkers. For full details please see the BROCHURE. If you are interested in joining…
Dear Friends, Well, here we are: Holy Saturday. For those who know us well, you will be aware that Holy Saturday, often a forgotten day, for us as Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, is a very special day. Yes, it is a day of waiting, a day of disappointment, a day where failure seems to…
Dear Friends, Hopefully you are still on board the Lenten journey. It can seem a long one if we are trying to take it seriously. But it isn’t too late. If we have made a sluggish start, or maybe, given up en route, these last days are time enough to get back into it. I…
On Friday 8 March 2024, Dr Cormac Begadon visited the Community in Colchester, to report back on the next stage of the excavations on the site where the Community had their house in Rue St Gilles. Cormac had made a follow-up trip to Liège in December and was welcomed by the lead archaeologist, Guillaume Mora…
Dear Friends, The end of Lent is just about in sight but it does become more & more intense as we get closer to Holy Week. When reading the relevant parts of the Gospels I can feel that growing intensity. One of the attachments takes us back to earlier in Lent as it focusses again…
Dear Friends, Known as Laetare (Rejoicing) Sunday, Mid-Lent Sunday, this Sunday is seen as a bit of a relaxed moment on our journey through Lent, fasting is put on hold & a bit of feasting is enjoyed. It is also Mothering Sunday & a couple of the attachments are loosely around that theme. Another, ‘Lead…
Dear Friends, Well, we are moving on through Lent apace – I hope you found something we sent last week helpful for your Lenten path. I hope some of you enjoyed ‘Catch me in your Scurrying’! This week there are a couple of reflections on Desert & Wilderness – both very much the context for…
Dear Friends, I wonder how we are all progressing through Lent and whether anything we sent you last week found resonance with you. This week we continue with a few lines from our Lenten Litany and a few other pieces we hope may be helpful. One is very long: ‘Catch me in my Scurrying’ but…
Dear Friends, Here we are starting Lent again. What are our initial thoughts/feelings with a move into Lent? Perhaps very little response – ‘we’ve done this so many times……’; maybe a feeling of challenge – will it be significant for me this year – can I make it significant? Am I fearful of challenge? Or…