Summer breaks

We had our Virtual Community meeting last night. This is a meeting online which is like a shortened version of a Secular Carmelite meeting. We say Evening Prayer together, we study a chapter from St Teresa, we have a time of silence. It lasts an hour and a half. We are breaking for August, the next meeting is in September. The question of an August break comes up regularly in Carmelite groups I am involved with, and I often ponder the paradoxical nature of this. Surely, if meetings are healthful and blessed, we should not want to have a break from them, as if they were work? And yet I have an instinctive feeling that such occasional breaks have some merit, I suppose they are a temporary stepping back as it were. To interrupt the rhythm is not necessarily a negative, it can be a means of refreshment, it can provide a space or opening for fresh grace.

Intercessions:

Thanking God for two little ones who have battled through life-threatening illnesses to better health.