Archives for December 2012

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 […]

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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 […]

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Hope: Advent Families group 2.

Saturday 8 December 2012

It was somewhat chilly last night in St Agnes but this didn’t seem to dampen spirits! Again our evening was based around some of the readings for Sunday, taken from the A and B materials and also looking at a theme; this week was hope. We began with a clip from youtube of an experiment […]

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Hope: Advent Adults Group 2.

Friday 7 December 2012

Last night was the second of our Advent group for adults. Alongside two of the readings for Sunday we were thinking about hope. We began with this poem by Chris Goan: A time to plant. There is a time for all things under heaven… So here am I With the little that I have Seeds […]

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St Nicholas’ Day.

Thursday 6 December 2012

So this morning, I took my own advice and browsed the Loyola Press Website. They have a section for stories about the lives of the Saints. It being St Nicholas’ Day, I looked for his story. There is a children’s version and one for older people. Disappointingly neither have the tale of St Nicholas knocking […]

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Advent prayers for Families.

Thursday 6 December 2012

I love life’s little surprises. Each Advent we read Jostein Gaarder’s “The Christmas Mystery”. This year when we opened it out fell a piece of paper with this prayer scribbled on it. Give us new eyes, Lord, to see our lives in the light of your love. Too often our fear, neediness, anger, or hurt […]

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