New shoots

Hopeful developments in South Wales.  We have been working on the establishment of an OCDS presence in the Cardiff area for a while: we now have a few who are keen to be part of this, but we have been held up by the lack of a venue for a meeting.  Now we have been very kindly offered a front room for next month and an option on a room on church premises in Caerphilly starting in April.  I don’t know whether there has ever been an OCDS presence in South Wales, but there certainly should have been.  There are a great number of Catholic families in the area descended from Irish immigrants who came over in the nineteenth century to work in the mines.  However, I have noticed that Carmel is not necessarily at its strongest in the traditional strongholds of Catholicism in this country like the Northwest and the West Midlands.  I have no idea why this is.  “The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8)

Intercessions:

Bernard - operation

Marie, Bernard (and wife Angela), Agnes – cancer

Siena, Elara – sick children

Rosemarie – very seriously ill

Wojtek – massive heart attack leaving him incapacitated

RIP Anthony Kirke, husband of Judith Kirke OCDS (distributors of the Carmelite Diary) – funeral today

RIP Roswitha Watson OCDS (former President of St Therese Community, Oxford)