Gathering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOGeOcgVCs Music: Blackthorn Crescent (not that which is shown above) In the name of the +Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Amen The Lord be with you and also with you My dear friends in Christ, we gather from the edges, of this racecourse, of this country, the edges of […]
https://www.vimeo.com/14463660 “Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air…” The Church We pray for the whole Church, the visible body of Christ on this earth, in all its diversity. We pray that the Church may reflect the face of Christ, seek to be united as the true vine and work together to […]
We took the red umbrella to mark that this was official "spontaneous worship", unrolled our wares in the arena, flashmobbed a load of people and started to pray the luminous mysteries of the Rosary The images looked remarkably like Emma’s artwork, although they weren’t hers. We liked them. I will post them separately. About 30 […]
https://www.vimeo.com/14386770 Penitential Rite for the Mass (which recalls the earlier Penitential Rite) So in order to encounter God in these holy and sacred mysteries, we seek to ready ourselves: our minds, our bodies and our souls… Hagar was the slave of Abraham, friend of God. By Abraham she bore a child called Ishmael, whom Abraham […]
https://www.vimeo.com/14373426 My beautiful daughter Emma (whose GCSE results come out tomorrow) is a wicked genius animator with Flash and these lovely naive stories are a delight to turn into dynamic scriptures. If I do another book on Children and Creative Eucharist (which I am desirous to do), then I could explain how to make these. […]
https://www.vimeo.com/14353555 A mixture of recorded and live music from Blackthorn Crescent, this is why the video is silent after the Sanctus. Numbers in the text below refer to the numbers at the bottom left of the screen. At the elevations, the guitar soars in a new take on the sanctuary bells Pray my dear friend […]
I’m not allowed to tell you exactly when and exactly where yet, but we will be undertaking some guerilla devotions some time during the Friday evening session. Two years ago, we shocked and stunned the Greenbelt Festival by performing Benediction in the Jesus Arms Beer Tent This year, we promise another Catholic, prayer-based devotion for […]
http://www.saintthomaselson.org.uk/164/ Not a great sermon. Sorry.
Text: Luke 13:22-30 “There is, perhaps no greater hardship afflicted upon mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons” – Anthony Trollope Last week’s Gospel spoke of the radical nature of the Good News of Jesus Christ – the Magnificat or Song of Mary, where the humble are lifted up, […]
When I pray the Daily Office: the diet of Morning and Evening Prayer which is required of all those in Ordained Ministry, I am filled with a sense of awe and wonder. I love the cycle of daily prayer, the immersion in the Psalms and focusing of the day in prayer: Fr George Guiver CR used to […]
