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Ray's Blog
Putting Things In Place
After a testing time with moving house, eyesight and adjustment problems, God has picked me up by thte neck and put me in a driving seat.
Catherine, a refugee from Hong Kong, comes for two hours weekly after her school work to help me with emails. Emilia, who has a...
Sympathy
I am losing sight, contacts, communications, mobility ...
Roderic sensed this and read to me a poem by John Hentry Newman.
This prompted me to order his little book of Meditations and Devotions edited by Devotiuons ediIan Ker.
Newman beautfully depicts...
St Barnabas Care Community Open Day - Open Hearts
Dear All,
You are invited to an open day on Saturday 20th September between 11:30-4pm at the College of St Barnabas, Blackberry Lane, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6NJ (London Victoria trainline to East Grinstead - alight at Dormans station - first gate on the right). This is to help run a...
Divine Helpers Come To This Poor Soul
My eyes, heart and energies diminish, the world is on the brink, but in contrast God advances with ever greater clarity!
It was so good to meet up with our CAH co-founders Michael Mitton and Russ Parker at the UK Annual Gathering - the best ever attended - though we...
Reconnecting With The Eastern Church Zoom Talk - Some Links
The Scotland Community of Aidan and Hilda members invited me to give a zoom talk on Re-connecting with the Eastern Church.
The zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85837676309
Global catechism: https://patristicnectar.org
https://www.ccel.org/fathers
Any books by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Peter was the saint of the western empire. John was the saint of the Eastern Empire....
After Virtue Author Dies - Record Posts
I posted the following on to my Linked-In account and received a record number of posts. Here it is:
'The great moral theologian Alasdair Mackintosh has died at the age of 96. In his 1981 ground-breaking book 'After Virtue' he wrote 'We are waiting for another - doubtless very different -...
Read The Signs Of The Times
Tomas Halik is a renowned Czech theologian and Catholic priest. In a recent article in The Tablet he recognises that the role of religion is changing. Its role as a buttress to society is diminshing. But it has a new role. Religion comes from the...
A New Celtic Library? Seize This Opportunity
As part of our commitment to simplicity I cleared out 90% of my stuff when I moved from a five room house to two rooms among others at St. Barnabas College for former church employees.
However, upon my arrival the chaplain showed delight in my writings and recordings and wants to...
Pope Francis, Quakers And Listening For God's Prints In The World
We watched the film Conclave about the election of a new pope. Next day Pope Francis died. Days later I replied to many emails as the TV relayed his funeral.
On Sunday I went to a Quaker meeting., One Quaker hated the pomp of the papal funeral but missed God's charism...
Easter And Gen Z
A Happy Easter to you all (even to those for whom it is not yet).
Bible Society research reveals that ' Gen Z' (people born between 1991 and 2009) are turning to a church. In UK, for example, 35% are Catholics, 25% are Anglicans/Epicopalians, and 11% are Pentecostal.
Gen Z have always...
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