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.
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.
Penance, along with our lenten devotions, is not a punishments for past peccadilloes but an instrument to help us give ourselves away more fully.
When we join a fellowship we tell everyone else more about ourselves than we think. To be a ‘pleasing aroma’ self disclosure is a key part of forging peace.
We only truly learn to answer the call of God on our lives when we can move from a faith based on works to one full of grace and generosity.
Peace never comes at ‘any price’ but is forged in the heat of communities which chooses to live out their imperfections together.
In Lent we leave things behind so that we can embrace the world more fully
If it’s not Good News for the wealthy as well as for the poor it’s not Good News for anyone. It is the task of the wealthy to be Good News for the poor themselves.
‘The hands of the Almighty are so often to be found at the ends of our own arms’
The Year of the Lord’s favour is about more than a good sermon.
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