Here’s a way of making a New Year’s resolution from James Alberione (died 1971, a great user and promoter of the use of contemporary communications technology): 1. Ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you to recognize the one major area you need to focus on, whether it is a positive step forward, or more a
This is, more or less, what I saw. Apparently the last lunar eclipse on this Summer (or Winter!) Solstice was watched by Galileo Galilei who was under house arrest in 1638 for suggesting the Earth circled the Sun.
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This is the fourth post in a series that I started by saying that I know in my heart what I mean, but I may express it so poorly that I will be misunderstood. I have been trying to write about communities that focus more on prayer than on programmes, more on God than on
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Update November 23 A Prayer from the NZ Prayer Book In darkness and in light, in trouble and in joy, help us, heavenly Father, to trust your love, to serve your purpose, and to praise your name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The original post: There is still no knowledge of, information about, the
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This is the third post in a series that I started by saying that I know in my heart what I mean, but I may express it so poorly that I will be misunderstood. This post I think can even be more easily misunderstood than the previous ones – but I think the concept is
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This is the second post in a series that I started by saying that I know in my heart what I mean, but I may express it so poorly that I will be misunderstood. The first on contemplative community is found by clicking here. I am trying to, in this current post, make a connection
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I think I know in my heart what I want to say in this and a future related post – but I also have an intuition that what I write may be misheard. But hey! Like that’s never happened before 😉 so here goes: Many of us will have been to a service with so
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An acquaintance is working on a PhD and is looking for people to take part in an online survey who: are over the age of 16, have some form of spiritual or religious belief, and have seen a mental health practitioner at some point in their lives (e.g., counsellor, psychologist, psychiatrist). It’s important that people
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