Archives for May 2012

Caught up in the wave.

Friday 25 May 2012

Over the last few weeks, I have been very aware of the joy of Easter and specifically the dynamic of God’s love. Within the Trinity there is a constant on-going movement of self-giving love. This overflows not just in the act of making Creation but also in constantly sustaining it. In the Resurrection, the Ascension […]

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Imaginative Prayer with Children

Tuesday 22 May 2012

Thinking about the story time on Sunday made me think again about the importance of story for children’s spiritual development. Many fiction stories, fairy tales and myths provide abundant material for developing children’s spiritual awareness. As a Church we also have Scripture which, of course, is one of the most important sources we have for […]

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The Living Water of the Holy Spirit.

Monday 21 May 2012

The whole of the Office of Readings today talked about the Holy Spirit, turning us towards Pentecost on Sunday. The reading from the Saints came from the writings of St Cyril of Jerusalem: The water I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into eternal life. This is […]

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An Ascension Story

Sunday 20 May 2012

This evening, I used this story with our children’s group: When He came, we left our lives; we left our fishing nets, our parents, our counting houses, our fields, our workshops, our bread dough. He called and we followed. Something had changed. Something was changing, deep within us. We sat and listened to his words; […]

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The Ascension

Thursday 17 May 2012

One of the wonderful things about the course I am doing is the people who are on it with me. One of them, the lovely Rosy, gave me this extract a couple of weeks ago and I have thought about the imagery in it ever since. It is taken from an Anglo Saxon poem called […]

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Easter Words.

Wednesday 16 May 2012

The Youth Catechism describes Creation like this: “God created us out of free and unselfish love.[1-3] When a man loves, his heart overflows. He would like to share his joy with others. He gets this from his Creator. Although God is a mystery, we can still think about him in a human way and say: […]

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