Archives for July 2012

Playtime!

Wednesday 11 July 2012

One of the lines in the psalms for the Office on Sunday caught my attention.: There is the sea, vast and wide, With its moving swarms past counting, Living things great and small. The ships are moving there And the monsters you made to play with.” We all carry around with us an image of […]

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What must I love thee for then?

Thursday 5 July 2012

In our finishing liturgy on my course, last Thursday we used the following prayer. It is attributed to St Francis Xavier and this version is translated by Gerard Manly Hopkins. I love thee, God, I love thee— Not out of hope for heaven for me Nor fearing not to love and be In the everlasting […]

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Jairus’ Daughter: A guided meditation for families.

Monday 2 July 2012

Here is a meditation/ story based on yesterday’s gospel that can be used at a family prayer time. In this story, there is a real intimacy to Jesus’ interaction with both the woman in Jairus. It helps to speak Jesus’ words softly and allow children time to hear them and imagine the reaction in the […]

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More than just the physical.

Sunday 1 July 2012

At the Tuesday Bible study at the Infant School, each week we look at the readings for the coming Sunday. This Sunday, we have a story with two healings. Jesus is on his way to the house of Jairus to see his sick daughter, when a woman with a haemorrhage touches the edge of his […]

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