Ray's Blog: July 2012
Olympic Flame Of Prayer
The 2012 Olympic Games draw together the world’s sports lovers in hope. The Games began in honour of the god Zeus, which the Olympic Hymn still reflects. The Olympic Flame, carried by runners to herald the Games, was introduced by Hitler. Celebrating raw energy is not enough to create lasting...
Posted at 02:36am on 27th July 2012
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Unhealed History
Sandi Kerner, from Richmond, Virginia, is here on Holy Island. She will take her Pilgrim Vows this week, and Philadelphia volunteer Judy Shelley will take her first vows.
Richmond was a cockpit of America's Civil War, and many wounds inflicted by slavery and white and black suspicion remain unhealed. A local minister, Rev Benjamin Campell, has...Posted at 04:58am on 16th July 2012
Jim And The Knife
Before we had The Open Gate I lived on Holy Island in a small cottage with one spare room. The first people who asked me to lead a retreat just for them were two couples, including JIm and Jane Clark. Jim has just died in Norway after bequeathing his Celtic...
Posted at 03:57am on 11th July 2012
Monos
Monos is a think tank and a charity which seeks to foster a monastic spirit in church and society
Penny Warren and I joined others at Mount St Bernard's Cistercian Monastery, near Leicester UK for its annual conference. I gave an address on this year's theme 'New Monasticism and the Local...
Posted at 06:56am on 2nd July 2012
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Let the hype fall off Harry and Meghan like water off a duck's back. May the royalty of the pure in heart shine in… https://t.co/wWx6oaPQDG
Help university students with mental health problems to let go of a perfectionist mind-set and social media addicti… https://t.co/UsCzXr55PM
Move the hearts of those around Jerusalem to keep the 10 commandments: not to steal others' land; not to kill those… https://t.co/Mgkv2iT8n9
In our disappointments, lift us up. In our denials, lift us up. In our duties, lift us up. Ascended Jesus, lift us up. #Ascensiontide
Help us to realize that every one of us needs a twelve step program in order for your Holy Spirit to fill what wo… https://t.co/yYQNWkCjLq
All-Compassionate One, get Christians out of their church boxes and religious de-tox bolt holes and forge them into… https://t.co/gbyGIHceXs
May infants in the womb be raised to life in you; may scarred heroes and spurned lovers be raised to life in you #Ascensiontide
Alon Liel, former Director-General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said in London: ‘If Britain will recognise Palesti… https://t.co/vg1psU8cAy
All human life with Christ is raised, the weakest ones by heaven are praised; now high and low on him have gazed. A… https://t.co/wnIYKet0jf
RT @PeteGreig: The Day of #Ascension means that the resurrected Jesus who was once somewhere at one time for some is now everywhere, always…
