Archives for December 2013

Life in Nazareth: Thoughts on the Holy Family.

Monday 30 December 2013

Yesterday was the celebration of the Holy Family. The readings from the saints was an address by  Pope Paul  VI on the life of the Holy Family’s life at Nazareth. This can be found on last year’s post for this feast. This year, talking about the Holy Family with Neil, I thought about the life […]

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Holy Innocents

Saturday 28 December 2013

Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents. Morning prayer today included that devastating reading from Jeremiah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting and weeping bitterly: it is Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. The reading from the saints, taken from writings of […]

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The Feast of Stephen.

Thursday 26 December 2013

This morning, still full of the joy of our celebrations, I was struck by the reading from the saints in the office of readings. As St Fulgentius, this morning points out we move straight from the celebration of Christ’s coming to thinking about Stephen, the first martyr. Many of the early Christian writers identify parallels […]

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Advent Family 4: Watching Mary again!

Tuesday 24 December 2013

On Friday 20th some of our families gathered again at St Agnes for our final Advent group. Again, we took the same theme as the adults and considered Mary. We began by lighting the 4 Advent candles on our wreath and thought about the previous weeks: We have arrived at the last week of Advent […]

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Advent Adults 4: Watching Mary.

Monday 23 December 2013

We began our last Adult group last week, by taking time to reflect on our Advent so far. Each of us has had a unique journey and, like so often we retain that uniqueness, while also contributing and sharing Advent together. We considered the themes of the three weeks so far, looking at the kingdom […]

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Advent Family 3: The Kingdom seen in Love in action.

Saturday 21 December 2013

Having thought about what Christ is like as our king, the third family group session focused on showing Christ’s love the world in our actions and the way we are with others. Recapping from last week we sang another copying game, this time called “Super crab” In this game all do the actions of one […]

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