Author: anna

Prayers online 0

Prayers online

During the Corona virus lockdown I was contacted by someone who was longing for communion with others in prayer, and we started streaming our morning prayer. It has been good for Andy and me...

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The here and now

The other evening at the time of prayer I was alone and decided to have a time of quiet down by the river. It was one of those very hot days of this summer...

Holy Week in Taize 0

Holy Week in Taize

Happy Easter, Christ is risen! First of all a little update on community members: We are five again with the Walker family and James. However, in addition to us all, our little group of...

Banned Music Night 0

Banned Music Night

We were excited to start the “banned” series with the young people with an evening exploring controversial music and controversy itself a little bit. It turned out to be really interesting. We started with...

Hospitality IV 0

Hospitality IV

This is the final post in the Hospitality series. I can hardly wait to tell you the news: three new members are living with us. The next post will introduce them. Living generously Being...

Hospitality III 0

Hospitality III

Breaking bread When Jesus visited Martha and Mary, Martha was aware that the body isn’t nourished by the Spirit alone and that ‘someone here has got to do the cooking’ for the hungry travellers....

Hospitality II 0

Hospitality II

Beautiful memories from Morbacka Retreat Home came back while I looked through old photos for this post. All the pictures were taken in January 2007. I hope one day we will hold annual young...

Hospitality 0

Hospitality

The next few blog posts are a translation of an article which was originally written by myself in Finnish for a publication of Hiljaisuuden Ystävät (Friends of Silence) in February 2017. It feels appropriate...

Christ is risen! 0

Christ is risen!

I tried to dedicate Lent to pondering the question ‘why did Jesus have to die’. Or, maybe more accurately, questioning the question. My Lenten reading was the Stature of Waiting (W.H. Vanstone, 1982) alongside...

Light in the darkness 0

Light in the darkness

Early winter’s morning a single flame shines a little light. It brings the whole room to life shadows of angel chimes in the ceiling. The contrast makes darkness visible. Your light in every living...