Archives for February 2013

In a Foreign Land

Thursday 28 February 2013

In our Lent book, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen used the image of ‘home’ to describe the spiritual reality that we are loved by God, held in the palm of his hand. The foreign land in the story, then, becomes an image for our rebellion against God. I was struck in our […]

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The Prodigal Son: Leaving home

Wednesday 27 February 2013

Here is the text of the story we used in our first family session. Jesus told a story about a father who had two sons. The younger son didn’t like being at home. He didn’t really hear when his father told him he loved him by providing him with the food he ate. He was […]

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Family Lent Group 1

Monday 25 February 2013

The 15th February saw the first of our Family Lent group at St Agnes. As the adults are using Henri Nouwen’s “The Return of the Prodigal Son”, the children are going to be using the story of the prodigal son to investigate some of the themes of Lent. We began by looking at two things […]

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Adult Lent Group 1.

Saturday 23 February 2013

In Lent, our adult group is working its way through a course based on Henri Nouwen’s book, ‘The Return of the Prodigal”. The first session, on 14th February, we listened to extracts from the chapter entitled “The younger son leaves home.” Nouwen says that “Leaving home is…a denial of the spiritual reality that I belong […]

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Peter: First among equals, a Rock for the Church

Monday 18 February 2013

February 22 is the Feast of the Chair of Peter. A question on an internet forum a little while ago asked “What is the biblical basis against Papal succession?” The Roman Catholic Church teaches the doctrine of Papal Succession: that, starting from Peter, there has been a line of Popes to lead the Church. Neither […]

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Lent Groups

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Just as a reminder, the first adult Lent group, based on Henri Nouwen’s “The Return of the Prodigal Son”, starts on Thursday at our place. Start time is 7:45pm. The Family Lent group starts on Friday evening at 6:30, at St Agnes. The church will be open from 6, to give people time to arrive […]

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