It is 74 years since The United States detonated a nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6. It is also the Feast of the Transfiguration, and I have used my reflection which follows repeatedly here to connect the two. Hiroshima Peace Day aims is to remember the between 90,000 and 146,000
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Let me introduce you to Martha’s House, a dispersed ecumenical benedictish monastic community. Mark and Catherine have recently founded this community to live monastic desert disciplines in the contexts of working, daily lives. I have e-known Mark for a while on twitter [Catherine and I also follow each other – but I’ve had more engagement
As we celebrate half a century since landing on the Moon, it is fascinating to remember that the quarterly journal, Liturgical Arts, in its November 1967 issue focused on A Chapel on the Moon: 2000 A.D. It included architectural drawings, essays, and theological reflections. Isaac Asimov had written an article, Moon Colony 2000 A.D., in
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Ignatius Loyola teaches us wellbeing, living in the moment, cognitive behavioural therapy, gratitude, mindfulness, simplicity, and living a life of balance.
Let us pray (in silence) [that we may allow God to steer our lives] Pause Lord, [or O God]may your ceaseless mercycleanse and defend your church,and, since it cannot stand firm without you,guide and govern it always by your goodness;through Jesus Christwho is alive with you,in the unity of the Holy Spirit,one God, now and
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On Sunday we will all read Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.’And he answers from within, ‘Do
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This month, we’ve been celebrating 6 July: Thomas Moore – spent some time combining the spiritual disciplines of the Carthusians with his training as a lawyer. He continued many of the Carthusians’ disciplines throughout his life, and drew on their love for gardens and their balanced approach to wealth. 11 July: Benedict of Nursia –
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At the time of the Lunar Landing in 1969, the Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law had the rule that any newly discovered territory was placed under the jurisdiction of the diocese from which the expedition that discovered that territory originated. This code had been compiled in 1917, and was revised only in 1983 (the
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