A message from Fr John

Dear Friends

Good morning - I hope you are well and safe.

Following on from yesterday’s thinking about our God-given breath, an old friend who now teaches mindfulness prepared the following few lines. I hope they help.

'Just for a few moments, let us ponder and appreciate the gift of our breath? This God given life that ebbs and flows in our bodies each day. Noticing on the ‘in’ breath any sensations we feel; the chest or tummy rising, the cool air entering our nostrils and flowing into our lungs. Then the tiny suspended gap while the ‘in’ breath turns into the ‘out’ breath and our chest falls, the warm air leaves through the nostrils or the mouth and we start again.
This small action, mostly done automatically every minute of the day is such a precious gift. Enjoy it, savour it and allow it to bring the love and peace of God into our mind, bodies and hearts as we breath.’

Tomorrow we might think of this is the context of the Jesus Prayer of the Orthodox tradition.
Let us keep in our prayers

Those who are sick:

Adela, Winnie, Sylvia, Joe, Susan, Irene, Paddy, Maureen and Audrey

And those who have died:

Fr Peter, Michael, Roy, Alf, Malcolm, Elsie, Matthew, Anne, Stella, Chris, Kenneth, Carol Ann, Ingeburg, Winnie, Patricia, Eileen, Maureen, Joan, Frank, Robert, Lynda, Cecilia, Lourdes, Dale, John, Eileen, Michael, Graham, Maria, Andrew, Gladys, Ellen, Patrick, Pauline, Michael, Alice, Gordon, Mary, William, Elsie, Lynn, Pauline, Richard, Tom, Paula, Michael, Susan, Denis, Tony, Antoinette, Sheila and Janet

As the great weekend of lift-off draws closer, please try to stay safe; this is so important as the threat of further ‘spikes’ across the country becomes ever more apparent.

St Joseph, guardian of the sick, pray for us

Every blessing

Fr John