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Ray's Blog
Critics Of Celtic Spirituality
I am engaged in three massive writing projects. One of these has been accumulating on my computer since the revised edition of my 'Exploring Celtic Spirituality' was published in 2004. Since then I have noted every serious criticism of Celtic Spirituality, examined and reflected upon the sources.
How does one do...
Sages And Soul Friends
This week I received two messages I share with you.
Sages
'I am exploring the understanding of ‘a company of sages’ which you mentioned to me in our early days in Cape Town, talking to several friends about its meaning, and the role sages play in society – wisdom figures I suppose,...
Elders In Towns
I contribute to Berwick Advertiser's Thought for the Week column. Here is my latest article: <p>
I received a card from a very old friend which said ‘I suffer from the Methuselah tendency’. I decided to investigate this tendency. I learned from the Book of Genesis that Methuselah had...
Anglesey New Monastic Retreats
I am at Llandonna, Ynys Mon (Anglesey), North Wales. Ynys Mon is the traditional bread basket of Wales. Can it now offer the bread of life to a spiritually depleted land? <p>
My host, James Percival, took me by boat around Ynys Seiriol. The English call this nature reserve, with its...
Tides And Seasons
Never before, over twenty five years on Holy Island, can I recall such warm sun every day of a week's retreat. I had rather short notice to shape and sharpen material for this retreat on Tides and Seasons.<p>
Retreatants came from Canada, England, Scotland, South Africa, USA and Wales. We...
Soul Friends
This week began with me sharing in an Australian Winter Solstice Prayer time on skype, and then being invited to sit in on their Caim Council: 'When good intentions are frozen, when relationships are chilled, when our lives are capsized by storms, may we find our heart in you, O...
Three Days: Three Countries: One Well-spring
On Tuesday I drove to Holy Island to meet a couple from Germany. One of them, a church leader, no longer found God only in his private and church framework. Now he sought God also in nature, the work-place and in other traditions. So he came to learn...Annual Gathering - Is Revival Coming?
We returned from The Community of Aidan and Hilda's Annual Week-End at Windmill Farm Adventure Center in Oxfordshire. Our keynote speaker was Ken McIntosh from USA. He challenged us to draw from spiritual well-springs but not to fall prey to false constructs or to political or religious prejudice....Franciscan Tertiaries Explore The Trinity
This week I co-led a retreat for Franciscan Tertiaries across the Borders of England and Scotland at Whitchester Retreat, Hawick - an inspired place. I offered spiritual direction and gave seven talks. Themes included Endless Adventure, Enlightening Elders, and the Trinity - The Art of Loving all of God....Coptic Connection
On Wednesday I gave lectures at Lindisfarne's Manor House Hotel to Canadian pilgrims. It was so good to meet up again with my old friend David Sherbino who heads up the spiritual direction courses at Tyndale College, Toronto.On Friday I cooked a meal for Cuthbert Way pilgrims from Scandinavia....
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