Community opportunity for Winter 2020-21
Do you want to spend the next half year or longer living, praying and co-working with others in a large household? Life in the Lunesdale Community is centred around the prayer, morning and evening,...
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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...
Why do we sing in many languages during our prayer?
Sometimes when we have new visitors to our community prayer, or we organise a prayer elsewhere, I’m aware that our use of many different languages in the songs may appear a little strange to...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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...
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