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For International Day of Friendship, 30th July “When you are lost in your own life. When the landscape you have known falls away. When your familiar path becomes foreignand your find yourself a strangerin the story you had held most dear. Then let yourself be lost.Let yourself leavefor a place whose contours you do notContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 27th July”

For the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, 22nd July “Then Peter said to Mary, “Sister, we know that you are greatly loved by the Saviour, more than any other woman. Tell us those words of His that you remember, the things which you know and we don’t, the teachings we never heard.” Mary answered, saying:Continue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 20th July”

For Nelson Mandela Day, 18th July “It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as theContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 13th July”

“I heard a voice speaking to me: ‘The young woman whom you see is Love. She has her tent in eternity… It was love which was the source of this creation in the beginning when God said: ‘Let it be!’ And it was. As though in the blinking of an eye, the whole creation wasContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 6th July”

“If you want to draw near to God,seek him in the hearts of those around you.Speak well of all, present or absent.If you would be a light for others,be like the sun: show the same face to all.To bring joy to a single heart is betterthan building countless shrines for worship;to capture one heart throughContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 29th June”

For the Summer Solstice “Don’t tell me about the end of the world.Tell me about the beginning.Befriend entropy.Assume this exhalation is your lastand you are on the slope of a final heartbeat. Be a wing that glides on gravity, risingonly by surrender, never quite knowinghow this melody is made from listened silences. A thousand skiesContinue reading “Words for Week Beginning Monday 22nd June”

“Who can tell how lovely in June is thehoney locust tree, or whya tree should be so sweet and livein this world? Each white blossomon a dangle of white flowers holds one green seed–a new life. Also each blossom on a dangle of flowerholds a flaskof fragrance called Heaven, which is never sealed.The bees circleContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 15th June”

“See the flowers, so faithful to Earth.We know their fate because we share it.Were they to grieve for their wilting,that grief would be ours to feel. There’s a lightness in things. Only we move forever burdened,pressing ourselves into everything, obsessed by weight.How strange and devouring our ways must seemto those for whom life is enough.Continue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 8th June”

For The Feast of the Visitation “Here is a meeting made of hidden joys,Of lightnings cloistered in a narrow place,From quiet hearts the sudden flame of praiseAnd in the womb the quickening kick of grace.Two women on the very edge of thingsUnnoticed and unknown to men of power,But in their flesh the hidden Spirit singsAndContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 1st June”

For Pentecost / Whit Sunday “Life-force of God, you make the sap to rise,the swelling of bud to burst the sheath.May I let the fruits of your Spirit grow in me this day.Spirit of love abide in my ears as I listen to stories different to mine own.Spirit of joy beam in my eyes asContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 25th May”