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Sometimes you can feel very low and as if so many things are not going right for you, your journey in faith is being disturbed by all sorts of tests that try the strength of your faith. St Paul was very aware of these battles as he had to fight right through to the endContinue reading “The Tools of Spiritual Warfare”

In the Catholic Church we revere Our Lady. We don’t worship her and there is a big difference. She is the mother of God and as such deserves our gratitude and our reverence. She agreed to take part in God’s salvation plan when she could have said no and led a much easier life. NotContinue reading “Our Lady and the Rosary”

Love is a strange and very varied emotion. There are many kinds of love: romantic love, family love, friendship love and charitable love. There are more categories, but these seem to cover most of the type of love we experience. The greatest love of all that we should most strive to feel is charitable love,Continue reading “Love and the Introvert”

I am thinking about the two disciples walking away from Jerusalem, discouraged and downhearted because they have lost their Messiah. With him, they have lost their hope for a better future, a greater faith and way of life with a leader they loved. They can’t see their way forward and so are retreating back toContinue reading “Emmaus”

I am sitting at my window looking out at a beautiful sunny day on this glorious Easter Sunday. It is really cold outside but as long as it is sunny, that always makes me feel good. I have bought far too much chocolate and the lamb is probably far too big for us, but isn’tContinue reading “Happy Easter!”

Today is the day that Jesus’ body lies in his tomb, the violence is over and there is a peaceful silence. We wait outside and meditate on all that has happened and joyfully anticipate what is to come, his wonderful resurrection on Easter Sunday. I love the Ignatian way of reading scripture, where you placeContinue reading “Meditation”

I virtually attended a Maundy Thursday Mass last night and afterwards, when we pray and keep a vigil with Jesus I thought about all he had gone through for us that day. He had a last meal with his friends, the first eucharistic celebration, he knew he was going to be betrayed by one ofContinue reading “Good Friday”

It isn’t always easy to know what God’s will is for our lives. We pray and spend time with him, we ask him to guide us and help us with the decisions we have to make in our lives. I haven’t always felt him answer, in fact mostly, it is only after decisions have beenContinue reading “Discerning God’s Will”

The best definition of loving someone that I ever read was that it involved ‘wanting the best for the other person’. I always thought that it involved our heart and our emotions and found it hard to say to myself that I was doing my best to love when I didn’t feel anything. We can’tContinue reading “Love and Friendship”

I was thinking about what I would write today and wanted to share with you some of the lovely hymns I have come to know and love. I have memorised some of them so that when I am on one of my long walks with my dog, Millie, I can recite them to myself. ApartContinue reading “Hymns”