27th of February 2021 10.00 – 12.30 on zoom Led by Nick Helm for Rochester Canterbury Diocese Spirituality Networks How do we recognise where God’s invitation to us is in life when there are many possibilities / options and challenges? It can be really tricky to sift the options and find some clarity. In this session[…]
Category: Blog Posts
General blog on Ignatian matters – particularly relating to the subject of the book – Ignatius’ life, the Spiritual Exercises, Discernment, Spiritual Accompaniment, Discipleship and Spiritual Growth. That’s enough to keep things going!!!
Julian of Norwich: speaking from an age of plague to an age of pandemic
Julian of Norwich has long been a soul friend of mine. Over the last couple of months I’ve had several conversations with friends who’ve been discovering her wisdom and finding it enriching through this time. At first glance we might wonder what a 14th century anchorite can say to us today, but a little deeper[…]
Some powerful quotes on ministry
Some powerful quotes on ministry For me August is set aside as a kind of sabbatical month. I’ve been using some of the time to try and bring some order to the myriad of papers and electronic documents that I have collected over 30+ years of ordained life. No small task, and one I’ve been[…]
Seismic Shift in Spiritual Direction?
Encouraging conversations revealing Seismic Shifts The two zoom meetings of people involved in Spiritual Direction and Spiritual Direction training on the 14th and 21st July respectively were really encouraging. I had a strong sense of being in the company of a deeply engaged group of people with a passion and commitment to Spiritual Direction and[…]
Spiritual Direction and impact of Covid-19
I’ve just had two fascinating zoom sessions looking at impact of Covid-19 on the ministry of Spiritual Direction. The first yesterday afternoon (14 July) was an online meeting I organised in which 42 participated from around the UK – a time to share experience and listen to what is emerging. I was struck by the[…]
Getting through or living through?
As we live through what might be the tail end of a middle stage of lockdown, there is an opportunity to ponder what has been learned, what challenges have been risen to for the better, what realties still need to be faced I was told by a directee last week that I’d asked a really[…]
Zoom & Spiritual Accompaniment
Zoom and Spiritual Direction: What are we learning? Zoom has boomed under lockdown, and I for one have been on a pretty steep learning curve with it. Having now conducted dozens of one to one spiritual direction conversations, convened several committee and small group meetings and led a couple of online half-day sessions for spiritual[…]
Beyond the Empty Tomb 6: Saul on the Damascus Road
Podcast Script Listen to the podcast here https://youtu.be/bTfgoXcVZEM 31 May: Acts 9.1-19 Saul on Damascus Road Welcome to ‘Beyond the Empty Tomb’ Weekly podcasts providing a led meditation on the Resurrection Appearances of Jesus. Today’s Resurrection appearance is from acts 9.1-19: Jesus appears to Saul on the Damascus Road. The symbol I suggest you[…]
Beyond the Empty Tomb 5: Breakfast on the Beach
Podcast Script John 21.1-19 Unfortunately my script has gone to the great data scrapheap in the sky for reasons I can’t fathom, though I do realise I should have saved the document before it evaporated from my computer desktop! Listen to the podcast here https://youtu.be/qIb8Fwnl_6k Reflections The challenge with this passage is which bit to[…]
Beyond the Empty Tomb 4: Thomas
Podcast Script Listen to the podcast here https://youtu.be/1d_ZGq_UqhM John 20.24-29 Thomas Welcome to ‘Beyond the Empty Tomb’ Weekly podcasts providing a led meditation on the Resurrection Appearances of Jesus. Today’s Resurrection appearance is from John 20 Jesus appears to Thomas, the disciple who had asserted he would not believe in Jesus’ resurrection until he had[…]