Posts tagged Pope Benedict XVI

Advent Adult Group: Week 1’s strands.

Monday 2 December 2013

Often, when preparing Advent and Lent groups, I have found that what you think will come out of a session is usually not what results on the night itself. Usually any pre-conceived ideas pale into insignificance compared with what God does with a session. This is undoubtedly what happened last Thursday! So much ground was […]

Adult Advent Group: Week 1 Materials

Saturday 30 November 2013

Thursday saw the start of our Adult Advent group. A good number gathered to begin thinking about the Kingdom of God. A summary of some of the discussion will follow but here are the materials we used.We began in two groups to consider what we knew and had been taught about the Kingdom of God. […]

A New Holy Father.

Thursday 14 March 2013

I’m not sure I have calmed down from the excitement of last night when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was announced as the new pope, succeeding His Holiness, Benedict XVI. In the run up to the conclave all sorts of people used it to forward their own agendas. The media, last night and this morning hasn’t been short […]

Thoughts by others on Benedict XVI

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Yesterday was a sad day. Benedict XVI has done so much for the Church. So much has been written about his resignation already but I have been struck by a few thoughtful pieces. One of them is James Martin SJ’s article, which looks at the legacy the Holy Father will leave behind.  Caroline Farrow writes […]

The River and the Cross

Thursday 17 January 2013

I have thought a great deal about the Baptism of Christ, this week. In Children’s Liturgy I have focused on the ‘epiphany’ nature of the event. When we were Anglicans, Epiphany was a whole season from 6th January to Candlemas on 2nd February. We have the similar readings now and I am still aware of […]

Easter Words.

Wednesday 16 May 2012

The Youth Catechism describes Creation like this: “God created us out of free and unselfish love.[1-3] When a man loves, his heart overflows. He would like to share his joy with others. He gets this from his Creator. Although God is a mystery, we can still think about him in a human way and say: […]