A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 13
To tend the griefs of our past we need to find ways of holding them close and making them part of our future. Loving as Jesus loves gives us the hope to turn pain into forgiveness.
Category: Benedictine
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 12
Living Lent, and our faith fully, is not solely about saying ‘no’ to the things that hold us back but also saying ‘yes’ to the love of God that calls us forward.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 11
The journey of faith is always a journey of making our ‘confession’. Wherever we are whenever we turn Godward we cannot but reveal who we are and humbly ask for our faith to be deepened.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 10
When faced with disaster we are tempted to break the rhythm of prayer. The Religious Life teaches us that when things fall apart the answer is to pray more not less regulalrly.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 9
To hold on to the One who holds us may mean we need to let go of other loves. However this is only so that once we have learnt to ‘love one another as Christ loves’ we may be able to love everyone better.
A Trysting Place – Day 8 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
In the life of faith there is no room for spiritual one-upmanship which presumes that our work is more important than another’s prayer or our worship more precious than another’s washing-up
A Trysting Place – Day 7 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
Of all the tools the Church has to bring healing to a broken world the most powerful is the willingness of the individual Christian to confess their sins.
A Trysting Place – Day 6 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
‘All work and no play’ is as true an aphorism in the enclosure of an Abbey as in our churhces as in our Lenten Journey
A Trysting Place – Day 5 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
In our journey of faith we need a balance between being busy and being prayerful – Ora et Labora when balanced help us steer a straight course.
A Trysting Place – Day 4 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
Penance, along with our lenten devotions, is not a punishments for past peccadilloes but an instrument to help us give ourselves away more fully.
Suffolk Vicar 