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With a Song in my Heart – Day 31

With a Song in my Heart – 40 Days of Sacred Songs Day 31 – Wednesday after 5th Sunday of Lent   To Listen:                             Calm me, Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skgc03R2wxg Calm me, Lord, as you calmed the storm; still me, Lord, keep me from harm. Let all the tumult within me cease; enfold me, Lord, in your… Continue reading With a Song in my Heart – Day 31

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A Trysting Place
 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Easter Day

The journey to a ‘Trysting Place’ is not for Lent alone. In this final blog find a link to the movie of the book ‘In this House of Brede’ and also details on how to be in contact with a local Religious Commnity.

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A Trysting Place
 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 40

As Lent draws to a close we run the risk of going back to ‘business as normal’ and not carry all we have learnt with us. What can we do to continue to grow closer to our Beloved.

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A Trysting Place
 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 39

The Yiddish Proverb ‘When you make plans, God laughs’ is as true for those living the Religious Life as for those on the roller coaster of so called ‘secular life’. What plans do we make for when our plans don’t work out?

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A Trysting Place
 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 38

To walk in faith always means going where we have not been before nor to places where we are comofrtable. To be faithful means a leap into the unknown knowing only that our Beloved holds us.

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A Trysting Place
 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 35

Until we learn that ‘my’ vocation is as much God’s gift to others as it is to ourselves we will spend more time on caring for ourelves than for others and build a selfish ‘Georgy-Porgy’ theology.

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A Trysting Place
 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 34

How we welcome lost lambs back into the Body of Christ says as much about us as it does about the penitent. We must beware, in so doing, of turning our God into a Judge rather than a Redeemer.