Zooming inwards and outwards
Catherine Askew explores how God’s love can be both limitless and intimate through the push and pull of zooming both outwards and inwards.
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When you no longer know how to be
This week’s reflection is a special blessing from the leadership of the Northumbria Community for such a time as this. It is taken from the end of our Small Boat, Great Big Sea Communion Liturgy (see also the ‘Come and See’ Wednesday prayers from this week) When you no longer know how to be, may […]
In the cell there may be monsters
The work of the cell is important for the monastic life. In this week’s reflection, Catherine Askew encourages us to step into our cell to recognise and confront the monsters that might just be popping up more visibly in us during this time of ‘lockdown’…
Becoming a Deepened One
Catherine Askew explores the idea of becoming ‘deepened’ and how it might enable us to make more meaningful connections with one another.
Learning to be filled in a time of absence
Catherine Askew reflects on the experience of learning to be filled in a time of absence, as part of a new weekly series from the Leaders of Community, during this time of pandemic.
Keeping a Monastic Rhythm – for such a time as this
In these disorientating, difficult times and on the day that we have had to close our Mother House – Nether Springs – Catherine Askew outlines how keeping a monastic rhythm can help bring hope and meaning to our relationship with God and each other: alone, together.