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…
Dear Friends, We hope this last week has been a good one for you & that if it has been difficult that you have had the strength and whatever else you have needed to deal with things. On the 11th, tomorrow, it is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. We have both been to…
Dear Friends, February can be a long time coming! January can seem long ….. but with February we begin to see lighter mornings & evenings. And light is today’s theme – inner light and outer light, the oil that enables the lamp to give light, the light that comes as winter begins to loosen its…
Do join us for all or any of the Zooms below: Ash Wednesday A reflective moment to start Lent 14th February – 7.30pm for 20-30 minutes Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87916139002?pwd=NGNmdHdSNDhIT29PSWxnMXVKQUNZQT09 Lent Course – ACT ON POVERTY Mondays in Lent: 7 – 8pm 26th February, 4th March, 11th March, 18th March…
Dear Friends, The last Saturday in January! And the evenings are noticeably lighter, don’t you think? Tomorrow is noted as Racial Justice Day and we are encouraged to work & pray for greater Racial Justice. Our reflections focus on that theme. Racial issues continue to be part of life for so many people. There is,…
Dear Friends, This week we have a seasonal theme – that of winter of course. For some it is a time ‘to get through’ in order to reach spring but for others it has a beauty & meaning that is positive & repays reflection. You will see that we have included two pieces by Joyce…
Dear Friends, I hope that the final days of this special time have been good for you & that you are settling into the routines again. Our theme this week is Beginning – the New Year is only in its first couple of weeks and we all experience ‘beginnings’ in many different ways – each…
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! We hope it has begun well for you & your families. This weekend we have the great feast of the Epiphany. There are many reflections focused on this feast & I hope the ones we have chosen this year are ones you will find helpful. Our blessing this week is…
Dear Friends, So here we are almost there. We hope these reflections each week have contributed to your readiness to celebrate Christmas. Our attachments this week close in a bit towards the celebration without anticipating it. The blessing this week is from the New Dawn CD, ‘The Repose Blessing’. We will pray it for each…
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…