Blog temporarily suspended

This blog will be suspended until Monday 20 October.  I will be going to Derry to take part in a Symposium organised by the Carmelites at Termonbacca on ‘Carmel and Christian and Human Development’.  The reason for suspending the blog for the duration of the Symposium is that I don’t have a laptop – this is written from a desktop.  I don’t know why I never got into laptops, but it’s probably because I have never had a great need to combine travel and work.  Also I am quite happy to do all my typing in my office, whereas a lot of people seem to like working in different rooms in the house.  I have never been to Derry before, but they tell me it is very beautiful, so I am looking forward to seeing it.  They tell me it has city walls, so that will be a reminder of Avila.  I have an old friend whose family lived in a house on the city walls, but she used to say that they had to move away because they were being shot at from both sides in the time of the Troubles.  Life in parts of Northern Ireland was very hard in those days, as I knew from visiting the family of my late wife in Belfast.  Please God those troubles may never return.

Intercessions:

Cancer: Brian Davis, Bernard (and wife Angela caring for him), Jacqui, Theresa K, Fr Jon B, Catherine

Siena, Elara – sick children

Wojtek – massive heart attack leaving him incapacitated

David OCDS – housebound

Sophia – blind infant

Joy Smith OCDS – seriously ill

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

Lucia – Overwhelmed by weariness

 Mark – brain infection

 Defence of the unborn and the elderly

 RIP Martin Gilham, Sue Burton, little Matthew (six years old, died of cancer)