I have been considering…

..suspending my blog indefinately.  I had already stopped all other internet usage, other than email, a few months ago.  I’m not sure I have alot more to give here and I have my doubts as to whether what I write could be considered a useful contribution anymore.  My faith has taken on a new depth and I’m unable [...]

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My cell…..

 
My body is my cell and my soul the hermit within.
Pax
Sharon xx

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Just do small things with great love…

 
I have a Benedictine friend who often shares things with me that he thinks may benefit and encourage me.  The text below was written and sent to him by Fr Richard Baker who was a monk during his formative years at St Hugh’s, Parkminster [the only Carthusian Chaterhouse in the UK].  Fr Richard now resides in [...]

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Domestic Church….

A quick update.  Am going to try and keep my posts shorter and more to the point as have a tendancy to produce tomes of writing which must be difficult to trawl through for those reading…
House move still going ahead.  No date yet but didn’t I say something about moving before the end of the [...]

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A new ‘ME’….

Here is a picture of me taken today.  Now, I rarely post pictures of me on here as I don’t look that good in photographs and they’re usually pretty scary. I don’t want to frighten my readers away .  However, on looking back at the photo’s of Ethan’s baptism/birthday celebrations last month I was horrified to see [...]

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Hallowed be Thy Name…

My friend Nicholas sent me this in response to my last post ‘Thy will be done’
Father,
I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures.
I wish no more [...]

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Thy will be done…….

At this end of this long, religiously ‘dry’ summer I am left feeling unworthy.  Unworthy and very unfulfilled.  As the day that Ethan starts school approaches I am starting to look to the future and there, shining back at me in the distance is a tiny chink of light.  That light is being sent to me by God because [...]

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GCSE Results…

Today is GCSE results day and like thousands of other parents this morning I went along with Millie to her school here in the City to see how she’d done.  We were both really excited and more than a little bit nervous too if we’re being honest.  In order to sit the exams Millie had to overcome the daunting [...]

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The Final Chapter

At 10 o’clock this morning Mum, Craig and I finally laid Jim’s ashes to rest at Olney Green Burial Ground.  He has a beautiful plot [for two ] overlooking the Great Ouse river valley.  The whole site is very peaceful and tranquil and not at all like a graveyard.  We have arranged to have a simple [...]

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Should I Stay or Should I Go Now??

Today’s gospel during Mass was John 6:60~69 and Fr James used verse 67 as the focus for his homily ~ Then Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘What about you, do you want to go away too?’ …..
Fr James was reminded by this Gospel reading of an ecumenical retreat he did on the Isle of Iona in Scotland, and specifically to the standard ’ice breaker’ that [...]

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