This girl's unedited journey from one institute to another. I have no idea how this will pan out but you're welcome to come along for the ride. Hopefully we will both learn something.
RCIA (Sunday not on a Sunday school)
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So I've started and will let you know how it finishes...
You do wonder, how effective can an online retreat actually be? Well let me tell you - very. I had a meeting everyday for a week and for me, it tied in with a work transition, my daughter being away and the other girls at work. I’ve been introduced to the Pray as you go app which I would highly recommend. Its relaxing - and slowing down is key in all this. Take a retreat as a sort of reset. Its ok to sleep in the day, which I did from about 13.30 til about 15.50 Doing an online retreat does give you a sort of excuse to switch off, focus on prayer and also on yourself. Be that reading, writing, I also went to morning Mass. So this all worked well to get into a new routine. Before all this, I did pray but it did tend to have a freewheeling Bob Dylan feel to it and I felt isolated as a Christian. Prayer without a church isn't the same, if you can combine the two, so much the better. The online retreat has given me direction in prayer I went for Isaiah 49 an...
The Queen is dead. Her funeral is today. One day we had a new Prime Minister, the next we had a new King. This cannot be good for our country. How interesting it would be to look and compare country's civil rest/unrest after a change of Monarch. There are always patterns, if we would only think to look for them. Charles, the Prince of Wales as he was. We do all know him and I think that alone will erode much of the 'untouchable' effect that The Queen held. She was the epitome of stability. No one ever called her the ultimate feminist I can't help but notice... For the record I'm very big on the Royal family. Not because of some long seated desire to be a Princess or because they are 'royal'. I love the Windsors because they are a family. One for the whole country to be involved in and to watch the children grow up. Even my daughter said of Princess Charlotte - 'I remember when she was born!' quite funny from a thirteen year old. One thing that cons...
So I was pretty comfortable going to the new church. To be fair, I didn't have to much other than show up and that's been going well. Unremarkable really, at least it was, until today.. In I went slightly earlier than usual and wandered nearer to the front. As I say, its sometimes difficult to hear and even in my schooldays I liked to face the front. Its worth noting here that somehow that church never has a chill about it. I don't do the holy water on entry or the bowing of the knee and I do need to practice that but after today, I do get it. Anyway, there I was, sitting by the pillar thinking about nothing in particular and up started the service and again I wasn't really thinking anything, going through the motions if you will. As you'd expect, time went by and it was bells and bread and wafer starting any second. Now, communion is a bit of a sad point really for me because I was baptised a Methodist having already been christened by the Church of Englan...
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