Blog Suspended till Monday 6 July

As I wrote yesterday, next week I will be going to Belmont Abbey near Hereford for a secular Carmelite retreat.  Belmont Abbey is a Benedictine foundation, the Benedictines have always been welcoming to us Carmelites – we have enjoyed their hospitality in the past in Douai Abbey near Reading and we have retreats currently at Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire.  May God bless their Order and encourage them with new vocations.  In the meantime I am suspending this blog until Monday 6 July.

Intercessions

RIP Mervyn Leach, father of two Secular Carmelites

Cancer: Brian Davis, Bernard (and wife Angela caring for him), Jacqui, Fr Jon Bielowski (Plymouth Diocese), Catherine, Alex (43 with five children), Sister Daranee Teapthong, Theresa K

Sophie – newborn having heart surgery

Ivy – sick child

Brian (recovering from Pneumonia)

Kevin (heart attack)

William Gove (recovering from stroke)

Illness:  Katy Keeling

Siena, Elara – sick children

David OCDS – housebound

Grace – troubling ailments, job difficulties, family (deceased mother and health of father)

Mark – brain infection

Michael, Kira – vulnerable youngsters

Defence of the unborn and the elderly

We are asked to pray for the Diocese of Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand, as the Northern Mission celebrates its centenary. The process of selecting a new bishop continues.