'Keep me out of your way' - Fr Mychal Judge, chaplain & casualty of 9/11

Father Mychal Judge was a little-known Franciscan friar ministering humbly to the disenfranchised and unloved on the streets of New York City… until September 11, 2001, when he suddenly became a global figure. As chaplain to the city’s Fire Department, he rushed to help first responders at the World Trade Center but was killed by falling masonry in the North Tower.

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Kieran Bohan
Intentionally Influencing

How our attention drawn to the changes and developments that are happening in and around us in the world and our reaction to this takes many forms. When we think about the ‘now’ and what the Government, the media, the neighbours, the grapevine tells us. What do we listen to? What do we believe?

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Laura Hutcheon
Rhythm of life

Work and rest go hand in hand. Rest is necessary to work, and indeed these can be seen as the opposite ends of a pendulum swing. To have these in harmony and balance, works well as too much of either and the pendulum slows and eventually stops.

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Laura Hutcheon
Heart and soul

Soul is often the word that we use to describe our innermost being. The part of ourselves that we hold to be the most precious and authentic. Yet how many of us have the kind of self-awareness that enables us to recognise and own the characteristics of this most private, personal, hidden part of ourselves?

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Debbie Williams
Coming out of my hermit’s cave

Whatever our experiences of lockdown, we are all now being asked, in one way or another, to re-emerge. We are all in a period of transition, a period of birth. And the world we are coming back into is not the same as the one we left. What might help us in these uncertain times?

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mite
The unknowing of now

A lot of people are struggling with an insecurity in the present times, one person I know called it “the unknowing of now”. Security though is not enough in itself. A child feels secure when a parent holds their hand, but it is the trust that they have in the adult that glues all experience together.

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Laura Hutcheon
Making sense of the senseless

Patience when we have nothing is not about accepting that is our lot in life, it’s about being able to live in the moment enough to enjoy simple pleasures and having confidence that society has enough fairness to allow us these.

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mite
Dripping fences

As I painted, I was aware that my efforts had an effect on my neighbour (however small), or in this case, her fence. How true this is in life, also. The seemingly small things that we do can have far reaching consequences for others.

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Laura Hutcheon
Diary of a COVID-19 hermit #3

Rather than clinging onto things, which give me comfort and security, I have been seeing whether I am able to surrender in trust, letting go of things I think I can’t do without.

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mite
Betwixt & between

There are times in all our lives when we feel ‘stuck’ or as though we are in between space or times, a liminal space where we sit and wait and find it hard to define ourselves and recognise our identity

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mite
Be still...?

Learning to sit quietly in stillness is at the heart of pretty much any form of spiritual practice. The busyness of life leaves little time for stillness and resting in God’s presence, or for those who don’t believe in God, simply resting, healing the heart and soothing the mind.

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