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Hidden, then revealed.

Tuesday 8 January 2013

I often find there are levels or strands to my spiritual life that manage to exist at the same time, even though they seem different. I was aware of two during Christmas and into Epiphany. I came out of Advent thinking about one of the things that had been said in the third Advent group. […]

The Holy Family

Monday 31 December 2012

Yesterday was the celebration of the Holy Family. As his homily Neil talked about how all of our vocations, to the married life, as parents and to the consecrated life are found in the Holy Family. He then read from an address of Pope Paul VI given at Nazareth. This had been in the Office […]

Love: Reflection on Adult Advent Group 4.

Sunday 23 December 2012

This evening at our 4pm mass, the final candle on the Advent wreath will be lit. Advent, our time of waiting and preparation ends or rather reaches its fulfilment. As part of our preparation, Thursday saw our final Adults’ Advent group. We looked at the Gospel and quotes from Blessed John Paul II on our […]

Justice and Joy: reflections on Advent Adult Group 3.

Friday 21 December 2012

Computer problems stopped this going up last week. Here is the reflection for Advent 3. Advent 3 brings a change to the feel of Advent and this was evident in our mediations and discussions on our third adult Advent group. Although we had taken the theme of Justice, which is so evident in the Gospel […]

Hope: reflections on our adult Advent group 2.

Thursday 13 December 2012

Things have caught up with me this week and so I write this post about last week’s Adult Advent group on the verge of going into the next one! I hope I remember the discussion correctly. There was a similar feel to the first week’s discussion. The session on faith gave us the sense of […]

The voice of the prophets.

Tuesday 11 December 2012

In Advent we get John the Baptist twice. This Sunday is the one which has messianic prophecies and John’s ‘voice calling in the Wilderness’ is the last of the Old Testament prophetic calls. He spans the Old and New Covenants and so he appears in the Gospel next week too. Here is the reading from […]