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A Sheep Fold Mass: Lourdes 2.

Monday 16 April 2012

On our first full day in Lourdes we took the bus up to the Cite Saint-Pierre. Also known as the City of the Poor, it is a place where accommodation and hospitality is offered to those pilgrims who cannot afford to stay in hotels. The cite is set above the main part of Lourdes, on […]

In which I ignore wise advice: Lourdes pilgrimage 1.

Sunday 15 April 2012

Today we returned to Eastbourne after a week in Lourdes. Neil was a chaplain with HCPT Group 154 and we tagged along. At the start of the week one of the adults on the pilgrimage said how, on her first trip, the chaplain had told her she would go home and want to tell everyone […]

O blessed night.

Saturday 7 April 2012

After the draining experience of Thursday and Friday , I hoped that at the Easter Vigil I would stumble on the joy of the Resurrection, in the way the women had done when they went to anoint Jesus’ body. Having not been to a vigil for a few years a flood of memories came back […]

Holy Saturday.

Saturday 7 April 2012

Last night I read this quote from one of my course books, about the move from contemplating the Passion to being with Jesus in the joy of the Resurrection: “Finally you must let him breathe his last and be gone. You must walk around in the hollowness of this loss. The Resurrection is no miraculous […]

Good Friday Evening Thoughts.

Friday 6 April 2012

I feel drained after the Good Friday Liturgy. Despite an evening of laughter, I have returned home feeling tearful. Being so close to Doug’s beautiful funeral on Tuesday, the emotions feel very similar. There was a lot of laughter at the wake afterwards, only to be replaced by sadness later. This week I have been […]

Being the Body of Christ

Saturday 17 March 2012

Part of our discussion at the last adult Lent group focused on the Communion of Saints again. A comment came back to me this week. It was about how the suffering of members of the Body of Christ effects us. This statement came back to me when listening to a report on the situation in […]