Ray's Blog: January 2021
Passing The Harp
Recenttly members of The Community of Aidan and Hilda had a Passing the Harp evening on zoom. This is a modern alternative to the occasion described by the monk Bede when people gathered round a log fire in a barn on the estate of the Whitby monastery and...
Foundations And Future
INTERNATIONAL ON-LINE RETREAT FOR CAH MEMBERS IN VOWS
The opening theme was ‘They went by another way’. This refers to the three magi who returned from Bethlehem by another route, and to the Community of Aidan and Hilda and countless other...
Kevin Mayhew R.i.p.
Kevin Mayhew, who died a few days ago, will be a loss to the world. I owe him so much.
We met by chance. A mutual musician friend knocked on my door to introduce him while he gave him a tour of Lindisfarne. It was a liminal meeting. The Community of...
Locked In During Lock-down? Six Golden Keys
Lock-down in many lands is harvesting depression, abuse and negativity. I have invested in Netflix and during energy collapses have at last watched TV series such as When Calls the Heart, Poldark and The Crown. Characters try to understand why another person acts in a certain way. Often this...
Liturgies From Lindisfarne
Kevin Mayhew Publishers have re-issued Liturgies from Lindisfarne with a new front and back cover full of colour. The back cover states it is ‘a daily worship book for individuals, new monastic groups and churches. It reconnects the world with the seasons and the soil, the saints and the...
Healing Can Go Viral
USA members of The Community of Aidan and Hilda held a healing and meditation service on zoom on Saturday. Just as The Three Wise Ones spread Light to Africa, Asia and the Middle East, which we mark at Epiphany, so, I suggested in my meditation, may those who carry our...
