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      <title>a mystic on Holy Island</title>
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      <published>2011-08-18T09:59:08Z</published>
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      <author><name>Ian Adams</name></author>
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        <p>I’ve recently been asked where to go on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. Some suggestions from me here - what would you add?</p>
<p>• go to morning eucharist in the island parish church<br />
• spend time in the parish church with the wooden statue of Cuthbert’s monks carrying his coffin<br />
• visit St Cuthbert’s island at low tide (below the parish church)<br />
• walk round the east/northeast shore of the island<br />
• spend time bird-watching from the hide at the lake on the east side<br />
• visit the book shop at the Open Gate retreat (Community of Aidan and Hilda)<br />
• be in the garden for prayer near to Open Gate (see pic attached)<br />
• and give attention to the small things…</p>
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      <title>The spiritual purpose of Marriage</title>
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      <published>2011-05-03T10:55:37Z</published>
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      <author><name>Bruce</name></author>
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        <p>I like this quote from the Bishop of London’s sermon for the Royal Wedding.</p>
<blockquote><p>A spiritual life grows as love finds its centre beyond ourselves. Faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of spiritual life in which we discover this; the more we give of self, the richer we become in soul; the more we go beyond ourselves in love, the more we become our true selves and our spiritual beauty is more fully revealed. In marriage we are seeking to bring one another into fuller life.</p>
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<p>You can find the full text <a href="http://www.officialroyalwedding2011.org/blog/2011/April/29/The-Bishop-of-London-s-Sermon">here.</a></p>
<p>It is good to be reminded of that from time to time ...</p>
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      <title>CS Lewis on paganism</title>
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      <published>2011-01-07T09:39:37Z</published>
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      <author><name>Andrew Wooding</name></author>
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        <p>Found this quote on Facebook from God in the Dock by CS Lewis. Thought it was interesting. If I’ve got it right, CS Lewis says he has more in common with pagans than he has with your average de-churched person:</p>
<blockquote><p>When grave persons express their fear that England is relapsing into Paganism, I am tempted to reply, &#8216;Would that she were.’ For I do not think it at all likely that we shall ... ever see Parliament opened by the slaughtering of a garlanded white bull in the House of Lords or Cabinet Ministers leaving sandwiches in Hyde Park as an offering for the Dryads. If such a state of affairs came about, then the Christian apologist would have something to work on. For a Pagan, as history shows, is a man eminently convertible to Christianity. He is essentially the pre-Christian, or sub-Christian, religious man. The post-Christian man of our day differs from him as much as a divorcée differs from a virgin. The Christian and the Pagan have much more in common with one another than either has with the writers of the New Statesman; and those writers would of course agree with me.</p>
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