Time and eternity

New Year’s greetings to all who are following the Carmelite way!  We are now more than a quarter of a century into the ‘new’ millennium.  Many of us can remember the first day of that millennium.  The New Year not only marks a fresh start but it also offers a reminder of the swiftness of the passage of time.  C S Lewis made an observation along these lines:  the very fact that we are so conscious of the passage of time, of the shortness of our earthly existence, suggests that we are made for something else – i.e. eternity.  He offered the analogy of fish in the sea, who are entirely at home in their environment.  We by contrast are not entirely at home in time, we kick against its constraints, and the Church confirms our natural instinct and points us to the way we can enter into that eternity and timelessness for which we long.

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)

Illness: Roy Seymour, 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

Defence of the unborn and the elderly

RIP Alan Rodgers