This Sunday we are creatively moving time and space by celebrating the Presentation of Christ (Candlemas) a few days early. It’s a bit of a temptation in parish ministry in which ‘weekday church’ is not so well attended to move important feast days to Sundays. Continue reading “The meeting”
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Faith at home
In Scetis, a brother went to see Abba Moses and begged him for a word. The old man said, “Go and sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everything.”… This is one of my favourite spiritual teachings which comes from the desert. It comes from a collection of sayings formulated by an eccentric band of Christians who sought a life without distractions. This movement, to the western desert in Egypt, represented the beginnings of what we know as Christian monasticism. The central place of devotion became the cell for the desert hermit. This way of spiritual formation was a hard road, tormenting, life threatening, relentless. Continue reading “Faith at home”