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Invocation 2013: Rome
Last week I accompanied more than 100 pilgrims from England, Wales, and Scotland, on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Peter as part of the Year of Faith. The pilgrimage, for seminarians, novices, and...
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FID: God Has No Grandchildren
Over the next few posts I want to summarise some of the chapters of Sherry Weddell’s excellent and readable book, Forming Intentional Disciples (hence, FID). The book was initially recommended to me...
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FID: We Don’t Know What Normal Is
Detail from a church ceiling in Bologna, Italy Chapter Two of Sherry Weddell’s book is entitled, We don’t know what normal is. Here she underlines the dramatic – but often unspoken – truth that a...
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FID: The Fruit of Discipleship
Detail from the tabernacle of the church of Vår Frue, Ålesund, Norway With the significant emphasis that she places on discipleship, Sherry Weddell makes a convincing argument for such intentional...
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FID: Grace and the Great Quest
Mass in the presence of the relics of St Therese of Liseux (Photo: Marcin Mazur) Chapter Four of Forming Intentional Disciples begins with a great quote: ‘Grace is grace, not magic’. In this chapter,...
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FID: Thresholds of Conversion
Rather than taking Chapters 5 to 8, as individual posts, I want to cluster these together and speak to Weddell’s overarching idea of the Thresholds of Conversion. Whatever I say here will need to be...
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Living the Journey?
Emmaus: the Blessed Sacrament chapel of St Matthew’s Cathedral, DC. This morning I had the chance to catch-up with a friend who has been working with some women religious in the last month or so. In a...
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