Technology and Carmel

The news I reported in yesterday’s blog that the paper version of Mount Carmel is ceasing publication and the publication is being migrated online is just another illustration of the cultural shift to the internet.  This has impacted my own life profoundly.  Right up to the beginning of this century my only real hobby (apart from following a bit of sport) was second-hand bookshops.  This dated right back to my youth, when there was one of them in the middle of our town where I spent some hours browsing.  Because I was mostly interested in old books rather than the latest publications, I had no interest in stores selling new books.  Once the internet arrived, I was confronted with a couple of massive electronic bookstores where I could actually target and locate the titles that interested me in a matter of seconds.  I haven’t been into a second-hand bookshop for twenty years now.  This little example illustrates the power of technology to change the pattern of our lives.  It is paralleled by the way we as Carmelites are now using zoom to create meetings where there were no meetings before.

Intercessions:

Cancer: Brian Davis, Bernard (and wife Angela caring for him), Jacqui, Theresa K, Fr Jon Bielowski (Plymouth Diocese), Catherine, Alex (43 with five children), Marie

Illness:  Katy Keeling

Siena, Elara – sick children

David OCDS – housebound

Sophia – blind infant

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

Lucia – Overwhelmed by weariness

Mark – brain infection

Michael – youngster with occult influences

Defence of the unborn and the elderly

RIP Roy Seymour, Richard Parker, Joy Smith OCDS, Dr Alan Rodgers