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Spiritual Growth: The Lenten Mission

I’ve just checked through my archives and cannot believe I didn’t write a piece on the Lenten Mission from 2010.  In my blog, Spiritual Growth- The God Path June 15, 2011,  I told the story of my first experience of Fr. Jim Curtin.  Although I tried to get him to come and give a Lenten Mission at our church in the period of Lent 2009, we already had someone booked for that year, so I had to be patient and wait to invite him the following year.  He finally came to our church during Lent of 2010 and gave a . . . → Read More: Spiritual Growth: The Lenten Mission

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Shared Wisdom: Words For The New Year

Christmas and the New Year is always a time when I find myself digging through “old stuff”.  This is partly because, as I acquire various gifts for people throughout the year, I put them in “special places” which I then forget about.  Therefore I have to search high and low for them, which leads me to look in places that I don’t check into normally.  And so top shelves and boxes and bottom drawers yield a treasure trove of gifts, new gems, words that I have squirrelled away that now come to light to be shared with others.  Enjoy!

 

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Vignette: Remembering Cindy

 

I managed to drag myself out of bed at 5.45am today.  I am not an easy morning person.  Once I am up and get going then I am okay.  It’s  the clawing my way up out of sleep and letting go of the sheer wonderfulness of being snuggled up that I find hard.  But I really want to create a routine for Thursday mornings; going to 8am Mass followed by a special Rosary with a small group.

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