The Magnetic Pull

Last night I was talking to a lady taking her first steps into Carmel and she spoke about something or someone ‘pulling’ her in that direction.  This is a good word, a powerful word for our experience as we sense an inward longing – surely the Holy Spirit – to go deeper and draw closer to God.  It's almost like the power of the magnet over the metal close to it. To us in Carmel that longing is fostered and encouraged by our acquaintance with our saints in their writings.  The marvel is that while we learn from their teachings, we fall in love with them, and that is a beautiful gift from God.

Intercessions

RIP Chinaka, Jacqui

Cancer: Brian Davis, Bernard (and wife Angela caring for him), Catherine, Alex (43 with five children), Theresa K, Elena

Sophie – newborn having heart surgery; Sianna, young child in the post-operative phase; James, recovering from surgery

Ivy – sick child

Brian (recovering from Pneumonia)

Kevin (heart attack)

William Gove (in recovery)

Illness:  Katy Keeling, Noreen

Siena, Elara – sick children

David OCDS – housebound

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

Mark – brain infection

Michael, Kira – vulnerable youngsters

Defence of the unborn and the elderly