Archives for January 2012

Continuing our Process

Saturday 28 January 2012

Last year, as part of our preparation for entering the Catholic Church, we spent time considering what we, as a group were called to. This continued after Easter.  We focused on what it meant to be a Eucharistic community. With several months of having our own mass on Sunday afternoon, Advent group and our first […]

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Repetition, repetition.

Friday 20 January 2012

I have completed an Examen for last year 3 times now and it has reminded me of the importance of repetition in my spiritual life. This is a practice central to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. The idea is that people pray with a passage or topic that they have already prayed with. However it isn’t […]

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First Anniversary

Monday 16 January 2012

Yesterday saw the first anniversary of the establishment of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. At mass, Neil read the Pastoral Letter from Msg Keith Newton, which can be read here. Birthday tea has become a feature of our time together after mass, so we took the opportunity to sing “Happy Birthday” to the […]

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Bedtime Stories.

Saturday 14 January 2012

Bedtime stories, in fact stories at any time of the day are a wonderful experience for both parents and children. I have strong memories of my mother reading to us. As she is talented at art, she would sometimes draw a picture at the space at the end of a chapter. When we read to […]

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Doing an Examen for a Year.

Friday 6 January 2012

I first became aware of doing an annual Examen when reading “Sleeping with heart bread” by Matthew, Dennis and Sheila Linn. The two brothers had long had the practice of going away with friends to share what had happened to them over the previous years, in order to examine where they were spiritually. It also […]

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Looking back.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

The Daily Examen, in which we identify the ways we have turned towards or away from God, can also be done for a year. Reviewing 2011 is not a task I relish such has been the upheaval but I know that doing so will help me see where I am spiritually. This time last year […]

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