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Ray's Blog
Royal Award For Outstanding Service
I learned today that Bruce Challoner's heroic efforts to re-format and paste 350 daily emails one by one on to mail chimp for the four year course on The Way have been completed. This alternate weeks course explores in depth the Community of Aidan and Hilda Way of Life, ethos...
Thought For The Week
This week I wrote the Thought for the Week column for Berwick Advertiser. Here it is:
Churches are zooming into new ways during the lock-down, with worship and ‘tea and cake’ on-line. One church emails its regular week-day worshippers with inspiring pieces by those who usually lead it. Donations to our...
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SIGN UP FOR THE AID AND HILDA WEEK ZOOM RETREAT AUGUST 31 -SEPT 4
LED BY RAY SIMPSON
August 31 (St. Aidan’s Day)
10.30 GMT Talk: Aidan: Irish flame warms a new world.
Retreat exercises and journalling: Jesus is ‘the man for others’. How did Aidan model...
Post-covid Society
Today is the 75th anniversary of Victory over Nazi tyranny. Out of the hardships of war came a determination to build a better world. In Uk every child was given a free education and every person guaranteed free health care. The United Nations was established to create gloabl collaboration. And...
What Is More Important Than A Thousand Activities?
I am asked to send reflections to the people who before Covid19 would attend a church service I was due to lead. I began: Thomas Homer-Dixon writes in The Globe and Mail: ‘Today’s emerging pandemic could help catalyse an urgently needed tipping event in humanity’s collective moral values, priorities and...
No Retreats? On-line Resources Emerge
On Tuesday we completed a four-week Zoom course on soul friendship for both a morning and evening group. It was led by Scott Brennan, Simon Reed and myself. Our final discussion was ‘What next?’ Two things were pointed out.
1) For a thousand years soul friendship has barely figured in...
Heaven's Flavours During Isolated Days
Isolation can become one long, sterile yawn or it can become a glorious procession of heavenly flavours. During these weeks after Easter we can look with fresh 'resurrection eyes' upon familiar life. Sally has been my sister for a life-time, but only yesterday did she tell me that for her...
Easter Sunday
May the candles we light this Easter Sunday help us to know that light is stronger than darkness, goodness is stronger than evil, and life is stronger than death. Alleluia! #EasterDay
Easter Eve
EASTER EVE – THE DAY OF MOURNING AND FORGIVENESS
Today a grave holds him who holds creation in his hand. A gravestone covers him who covers the heavens with glory. Life sleeps. Hell trembles. The human race waits with bated breath.
We have been buried with Christ through baptism. In faith we...
Good Friday
FRIDAY OF HOLY WEEK – JESUS DIES ON A CROSS
During the hours he hung in agony he uttered seven sentences at intervals:
Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
I thirst! John 19:28
Truly, I say to you, today you will be with...
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