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Operation Shortbread Cookies

OPERATION 500 BAGS OF SHORTBREAD COOKIES / 500 THANK YOUS This was the invitation that the priests and pastoral ministry team of Trappes parish sent out to the parishioners. After lockdown comes the time to say THANK YOU. Thank you to the hospital, laboratory, nursing and pharmacy staff. Thank you to the businesses that stayed open to insure our subsistence: bakers, butchers, grocery store workers and cashiers. Thank you to those who continued to provide essential social services: postal carriers, municipal police, undertakers, garbage collectors, security guards,…

13th Day of De-confinement

D-Duration. We want reduced lockdown measures over long duration. E- Enter. We have entered into the first stage. C- Creation. It is like a new creation, living like Jesus in full harmony with the wonders of creation. O- Order. Necessary so that the greatest number of persons possible do not get Coronavirus. N-Nature. Following lockdown we really appreciate nature with its multicolored flowers and bird songs. F-Families. May this time of relaxed lockdown bring peace and joy to families. I-Interiority. Silence and solitude have allowed us to…

Living lockdown in Whetstone

Waiting…..waiting, for the lifting of the “ lockdown” and the eradication of the coronavirus or COVID 19. …..for a date to move to Nazareth House. Meanwhile how do we spend our time during this lockdown? We are packing all our belongings so that we will be ready when we are given the “go-ahead” to move…. Every Sunday and even every day we can assist at Mass through live streaming. (This is because our churches are all closed due to the COVID 19). How exciting when we can…

“From distraction to consecration …”

This strange expression comes from Father Adolfo Nicolas, an ex-Father General of the Jesuits. Spontaneously we would say that concentration is the opposite of distraction. No matter how much we try to concentrate, our thoughts and ideas go in different directions, and in spite of ourselves, our minds are filled with distractions. We complain about being distracted during prayer. But aren’t we also distracted in many other areas of our lives, in our work, in our mission? In the end aren’t we all absent minded in the…