E-Reflections http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections en coracletrust@googlemail.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-02T08:38:27+00:00 Faith transitions: Doors opening http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/faith_transitions_doors_opening http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/faith_transitions_doors_opening#When:09:38:27Z Joy teaches him
to rise, to stand and move out through
the opening the light has made

Sabbaths 2001, I.  Wendell Berry

]]> 2012-02-02T09:38:27+00:00 Faith transitions: Compass and rudder http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/faith_transitions_compass_and_rudder http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/faith_transitions_compass_and_rudder#When:08:23:08Z Shall I then suffer every kind of wound that the sea can inflict?
Shall I take my tiny boat across the wide sparkling ocean?
O King of the Glorious Heaven, shall I go of my own choice upon the sea?

O Christ, will You help me on the wild waves?

St. Brendan’s Prayer

]]> 2012-01-19T08:23:08+00:00 Faith transitions: Secure and strange http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/secure_and_strange http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/secure_and_strange#When:11:33:35Z People need a life of practical romance;
the combination of something that is strange
with something that is secure.
Orthodoxy: the romance of faith, G.K. Chesterton

]]> 2012-01-12T11:33:35+00:00 Advent 2011: That we may be one http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/advent_2011_introduction_that_we_may_be_one http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/advent_2011_introduction_that_we_may_be_one#When:06:32:59Z Make ready for the Face that speaks like lightning,
Uttering the new name of your exultation
Deep in the vitals of your soul.

Make ready for the Christ, Whose smile, like lightning,
Sets free the song of everlasting glory
That now sleeps, in your paper flesh, like dynamite.

Thomas Merton

]]> 2011-11-24T06:32:59+00:00 Faith transitions: Reading to Being Read http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/reading_and_being_read http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/reading_and_being_read#When:02:29:20Z What is this wondrous mystery
unfolding within me?
I have no words to name it,
for that One is above all praise,
transcends all words

St.Symeon the New Theologian

]]> 2011-11-17T02:29:20+00:00 Faith transitions: Turning around yet one more time http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/turning_around_yet_one_more_time http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/turning_around_yet_one_more_time#When:04:21:29Z The soul should always stand ajar
That if the Heaven enquire
He will not be obliged to wait
Or shy of troubling Her

Emily Dickinson

]]> 2011-11-03T04:21:29+00:00 Faith transitions: Deepening what we already have http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/deepening_what_we_already_have http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/deepening_what_we_already_have#When:13:00:02Z I tell you, do not worry about your life
Matthew 6:25

]]> 2011-10-20T13:00:02+00:00 Faith transitions: Crossing threshold after threshold http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/crossing_threshold_after_threshold http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/crossing_threshold_after_threshold#When:13:10:07Z It is morning, afternoon or evening.
Begin

A Book of Hours, Thomas Merton

]]> 2011-10-06T13:10:07+00:00 Faith transitions: A fear of becoming http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/a_fear_of_becoming http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/a_fear_of_becoming#When:01:51:11Z The soul, that glancing, Aeolian*, thing, elusive as a butterfly.

C G Jung, Archetyes and the Collective Unconscious
*Soul, from Old German saiwalo, may be cognate with aiolos, “quick moving, changeful hue, shifting”

]]> 2011-09-22T01:51:11+00:00 Faith transitions: A grand sweep http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/a_grand_sweep http://www.coracletrust.org.uk/index.php/e-reflections/a_grand_sweep#When:03:15:54Z Suilven’s a place
that gives more than a basket of trout.  it opens
the space it lives in and a heaven’s revealed, in glimpses

No accident, Norman MacCaig

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