I shall be travelling to help celebrate some birthdays over the next few days, so the blog will be suspended till Wednesday 17th December (when I have to attend a funeral!)
Yesterday evening my own Secular Group was able by coincidence to be present when the body of the late Joy Smith OCDS was received into St Gregory and St Augustine church in north Oxford prior to her
Today we remember a modern Spanish Carmelite saint not well known in these islands, St Maria Maravillas. I have borrowed this summary of her life from a Carmelite website. ‘ Maria Maravillas was bor
I was discussing St John of the Cross with a fellow Carmelite yesterday and she used an extraordinary word to describe him, saying that she finds his words ‘soothing’. I can identify with that, becau
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