Let us journey into the Days of Easter Mystery

May we become awareof the Divine Presencewithin us,all around us,beyond usAnd with us always...

Paschal Mystery

Life is a Gift...

It gets messy...

We can change it!

As we travel through these

dayslet us be ‘ drawn

into...an endlessly dynamic

symphony of three

movements: allurement,

relationship and emergence.’

Acts of the 26th General Chapter Life, Death, Resurrection

Life is Gift...

I am Gift, being created in the image and likeness of God, who is Life and Love itself.I am being called to become Gift for othersI am invited to recognise and enjoy all the Giftednessthat surrounds me, people, creation, music, beauty, poetry.May I ‘awaken to the creative vitality of our abundant and exuberant God.May I immerse my self more consciously in the evolving mystery of universe, of Earth, of humanity’, of my own evolving sense of true self. The Gift You made of me, may I become.

Life gets messy... In these days we are invited to ‘walk contemplatively with open eyes, attentive to the violence and the beauty, the wonder and heartache, the desolation and radiance in ourselves and beyond. We hear the cry of Earth, the cry of children.

We feel humanity diminished’.We become still, aware of our need for healing, reconciliation, forgiveness.Be with us O Forgiving God

And we can change it!

We are called...

...again, through our Journey into the mystery of these Easter Days to ‘respond...in the spirit of Mary and Julian, living on the edges of our existence with Joseph as we continue to re-imagine the Gospel of Jesus’, Light in our Darkness.

God of the Light and the Darkness,

may our journey through these Easter Days,

transform us.

‘Help us to change. To change ourselves and to change our world. To know the need for it. To deal with the pain of it.

To feel the joy of it. To undertake the journey

without understanding the destination. The art of gentle

revolution’. (Leunig)

And may the Spirit of the Living God shine through us as we

‘nurture communion in relationships of compassion,

justice, mutuality and healing’,Amen.

There is a longing in our hearts O God for You to reveal Yourself to us. There is a longing in our hearts for love we only find in You our God

For justice, for freedom, for mercy: hear our prayer. In sorrow, in grief: be near hear our prayer, O God.

There is a longing in our hearts O God for You to reveal Yourself to us. There is a longing in our hearts for love we only find in You our God.

For wisdom, for courage, for comfort: hear our prayer. In weakness, in fear: be near, hear our prayer, O God.CJMMUSIC

There is a longing in our hearts O God for You to reveal Yourself to us. There is a longing in our hearts for love we only find in You our God.

God save us, take pity, light in our darkness. We call You, we wait: be near, hear our prayer, O God.