Dear Friends, The flavour of our attachments this week move a little nearer to Christmas. There is another John Betjeman poem which may be known to you, but also a very short piece from Ronald Rolheiser which begins: ‘Christmas isn’t automatic, it can’t be taken for granted’. It took me by surprise but it makes…
Dear Friends, We hope the first week of Advent has been a peaceful & fruitful one. In our attachments this week we continue to give you material that we hope will be good for reflection at this time. They include a John Betjeman poem with which you may already be familiar. The blessing this week…
The sisters are grateful to all those who give so generously through our Advent appeal, and at other times during the year. Treating young children with malnutrition and running the school for the disabled in Muhanga are just two examples of the work our sisters are involved in, helping the poorest of the poor, and…
On Saturday 2nd December the Community and guests gathered, at Howe Close, for a talk by researcher Dr Cormac Begadon (University of Durham). Cormac shared details and insights following exciting new finds at the excavation site of the Community’s old convent in Liège. The talk, detailed below, was followed by Evening Prayer for the beginning…
Dear Friends, Advent is here again! This year, just because of dates, it is a ‘short’ advent – the 4th Sunday of Advent is Christmas Eve. So we better get on with it! Attachments in these weeks are all related to Advent and into Christmas & we are trying to give you a variety each…
Dear Friends, Gosh – end of November – Feast of Christ the King &, next weekend, the beginning of Advent. The Feast of Christ the King can be a bit ambiguous in our time. Monarchy and all that! Rather than try & imagine what the Kingdom of God might look like when, at an undisclosed…
Dear Friends, November always seems to me to be a long month! But we are now over half way through. But in these last weeks I have been haunted by the felling of that sycamore tree at Hadrian’s Wall earlier in the autumn. It was a landmark between two hills & was around 300 years…
You are invited to join the Community Meditative Reflection for Advent at 5.30pm on Zoom Sunday 3rd December – “What is God doing this Advent?” Sunday 10th December – “Lighting the Darkness” Sunday 17th December – “Opening the Door of our Hearts” Friday 22nd December – “Emmanuel” and IN PERSON on Wednesday 20th December at 5.30pm…
Dear Friends, We hope this last week has been a good one for you, on balance anyway, & that you have escaped the worst of the storms. Remembrance Sunday – another special November day – comes round again. We hope the reflections are helpful – there are so many to choose between. Whilst there is…
Dear Friends, November begins, in the Church, with the great feast of All Saints, followed the next day by the Commemoration of All Souls. And then a bit further into November we have Remembrance. These, together with the evidence of the dying of the year which is there for us all to see, sets quite…