This article is reproduced from the April issue of Roqueta, Menorca’s English language magazine. Kate and I continue to make our way through our first year of life in Menorca, and the last few months have been full of discoveries. We have experienced the celebration of familiar things in new and different ways. We have […]
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JaFfA – Saint David
At the beginning of March, the young people who came to JaFfA learned about Saint David. Things that we learned: Saint David was a monk. He is the patron saint of Wales. His symbols are leeks and daffodils. His flag is a gold cross on a black background. Cup cakes decorated with icing daffodils are […]
Archdeaconry Synod – John Bell On Music
The Rev. John Bell was the keynote speaker for the Gibraltar Archdeaconry synod which was held at the beginning of February. John is a well-known member of the Iona community, a writer, broadcaster, musician, and ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He took as his theme, “Music in forwarding the Gospel,” and reviewed […]
Women’s World Day of Prayer
The Women’s World Day of Prayer occurs on the first Friday of March every year. This year, the service was designed and prepared by the women of Egypt. Since Egypt continues to figure in our news bulletins, there was a special feeling of solidarity with those who have contributed to this year’s Day of Prayer, […]
Ash Wednesday and Lent
Lent Derived from the old English word for “lengthen” (as do the days in spring), Lent is the 40-day period of prayer, penitence and pondering before Easter. Starting on Ash Wednesday, the seventh Wednesday before Easter, it commemorates Christ’s period of deprivation and sacrifice in the desert and recalls the events leading to his crucifixion. […]
Prayer of Thomas Merton
During the workshop on prayer offered within Santa Margarita last autumn, one of the prayers mentioned was one from Thomas Merton that helps us to focus in humility before God. The occasion of his birthday seems an appropriate time for a reminder of that prayer: God, we have no idea where we are going. We […]
Saint Antony: blessing of the animals