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I enjoy visiting cemeteries, as I find them to be places of peace, as well as of grief. Maybe it is the stillness, maybe it is the...
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Apr 7, 2021
Peter Wept.
I always feel sorry for Peter at this time of year, when he is recorded as denying Jesus - although he did. But only because he was...
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Mar 25, 2021
Live in the Light
To come into the light of Your cross – exposed in the glare – yet not glare exposed in the gently penetrating light all pervading...
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Mar 18, 2021
Striving for Love
Do you strive to ensure you are loved and valued – by God and/or by those around you? How long have you worked hard to be a good person,...
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Mar 15, 2021
Mothering Sunday - Refreshment
Twenty-odd years in Community have linked Lent Four with chocolate, cake, flowers and celebration; yes, in the middle of Lent. While...
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Mar 9, 2021
Courtesy
Taken in 1866, this photograph depicts M. Lavinia with a few Sisters, plus the girls of All Hallows Orphanage. It is an interesting...
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Mar 8, 2021
Where are you?
(Genesis 3). They were afraid because they were naked, so they hid. They were afraid because they were vulnerable, naked, open to view....
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Feb 24, 2021
How is your harvest?
Some seed fell on hard ground, where the squirrels came and ate it (before the birds could get there); some fell on rocky soil, where no...
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Feb 23, 2021
The Splendour of Love
How do you truly see God? When you say ‘Lord’ what is the underlying image that comes to mind? So often these images can bring up ideas...
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Feb 22, 2021
Change
I want to respond to the news that the UK has now had more than 100 000 deaths from Covid 19; I also want to respond to Holocaust...
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Feb 2, 2021
Two Sisters
The 21st December marks the anniversary of the death of two of our sisters: M. Louisa, who died in 1949, and Sr Esther Faith, whose year...
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Feb 2, 2021
Empty Hands
I have a notebook in which I write texts and phrases that have meant something to me. One of these is ‘You are deserving because you are...
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Jan 26, 2021
Nameless
I am the wife of Manoah, the mother of Samson, and none of you know my name. For my name was not recorded; the angel came to me to tell...
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Jan 11, 2021
Arise, shine!
On Epiphany, the feast celebrating the coming of the Magi to Jesus, I was reading the Old Testament passage set for that day, Isaiah...
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Jan 4, 2021
New Year
In a dark, still Chapel, Sisters and Oblates move prayerfully into their seats; a single bell rings out, signalling that it is 5 minutes...
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Dec 17, 2020
Seeing Clearly
Great rewards have been promised to Balaam, son of Beor, by Balak, king of Moab if he will come and curse the Israelites. (You can find...
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Dec 10, 2020
2020 Challenges
My profile photograph was taken when a meal out with family was usual, didn’t involve thinking about how many could come or how to keep 2...
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