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Week beginning 14th September 2026 Our words for the week are by American poet Lynn Park Take the time to prayIt is the sweet oil that eases the hinge into the gardenSo the doorway can swing open easilyYou can always go there Consider yourself blessedThese stones that break your bonesWill build the altar of yourContinue reading “Words of the Week”

Week beginning 7th September 2026 Our words for the week are ‘Any Morning’ by the poet William Stafford. Just lying on the couch and being happy.Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head.Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it hasso much to do in the world. People who might judge are mostlyContinue reading “Words of the Week”

Week beginning 31st August 2026 Our words for the week are from the book Anam Cara by John O’Donohue, ‘A blessing for solitude’. May you recognise in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul. May you realise that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects youContinue reading “Words of the Week”

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”