Posts tagged Family

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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Lent course.

Friday 1 February 2013

The Adult group this Lent will be based on Henri Nouwen’s “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A story of homecoming,” published by Darton, Longman and Todd. There will be materials provided at all the group sessions but the book is so good, I suggest that  adults intending to do the course might want to […]

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Love: Family Advent Group 4

Saturday 22 December 2012

This Friday was our final Family Advent group. The structure, like the adults’ group, only had one main activity and allowed more time for the children to investigate our theme of Love. After lighting candles, singing “Wait for the Lord” we thought about all we had done in the previous 3 weeks: Over the last […]

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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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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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