Posts by Julianne Chatfield

Compline and Conferencing

Wednesday 21 November 2012

We have started a little way down the road to developing our community prayer life this week. On Sunday a handful of the group met to do Compline and Karlie and I talked about what we gained from our talk with Jo Gilbert. It was suggested that we try the following way forward. We will […]

A vision of God.

Thursday 8 November 2012

Sometimes I read something that I come back to again and again, a well at which I can drink deeply. Saturday’s reading from the Saints is one of those. I have re-read it several times since the weekend. Coming from St Catherine of Siena’s Dialogue on Divine Providence, it gives a beautiful vision of God […]

Prayer Time.

Saturday 3 November 2012

Throughout our journey together we have discussed what we were called to do as a group. Those who started off our preparation to enter the Catholic Church, via the Ordinariate have all talked about knowing now that they are in the ‘right place’. We hope that those going through RCIA this year feel the same […]

Telling the stories: All Saints and All Souls.

Friday 2 November 2012

Sometimes in a family doing the off-the-cuff thing can be the thing that works. This is true of the spiritual side of family life too. Last night as the Chatfields and Allaways sat round the table for evening meal before Mass for All Saints we lit a candle and, as is our habit so far […]

New Gifts

Thursday 25 October 2012

I have been reflecting, off and on about the social we had in September. Not every one could make it but there were some from the original group and some newer members. Some of us were given the opportunity to share a little of our journey. It was from this and other developments that Karlie […]

Eyes back on God: 2 Peter 3.

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Here is the final part of the study on 2 Peter (If you want to read the study on Chapter 1 and 2 read here and here): The reality of seeing those given over to falsehood and evil is distrubing and so Peter does not leave his readers there. He turns their sight back to […]