Carmel and the Internet

Are we just right at the beginning of the internet age?  Is this period the equivalent to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution?  Such revolutions take time to develop because people are slow to realise their full potential.  This requires an act of imagination.  I often wonder who first had the idea of putting a camera on a phone – that required an act of imagination.  Before that, cameras were cameras and phones were phones.  Perhaps similar acts of imagination are required of us if we are to make use of the incredible potential of the internet.  Formation of Seculars over zoom is already happening, and here and there Seculars hindered by mobility problems are already attending physical meetings of their community via zoom.  A Virtual Community has been set up with meetings entirely on zoom – though they are shorter than conventional gatherings.  Outside Carmel, Catholics are attending Morning/Evening/Night Prayer via zoom, and there are rosaries going on similarly.  Many churches have institutionalised broadcast masses since the Pandemic.  I wonder what the next big innovation of this kind will be?   

Intercessions:

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

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)