Peter Blog a few random thoughts

Palestinians in the Gaza strip looking for water to drink    There are all in our lives basic needs that we need to live. They are food, shelter, water and security. Without these we cannot hope to live and survive. But, do these basic needs give us fulfilment in life. IT seems that the other needs we have can be based around these four basic needs. The woman had been through a lot and seemed to be searching for something more than the basic needs. She had been through a lot in her life. The well would have been a traditional place for meeting people. And whom did she come across but Jesus. He asks her for a drink. She is surprised as Samaritans do not usually associate themselves with Jews. Water is a very basic need it is something that sustains and helps life. Sadly many places in the world do not have clean water use. In the Gaza strip by 2016 for example they will run out of clean drinking water because of the Israeli government. It seems to me that this ...

http://www.catholicnews.org.uk/confession The mount of Transfiguration is a big climb. One of the things that you have to do when you go to it is to get into a taxi and make quite a hair-raising drive up the mountain. When you reach the top the views are extraordinary. When you look down on the right of the Church that is built on top is a valley called Armageddon the place according to the book of Revelation God will defeat the devil. Up here on the mountain I reflected that Jesus must have been a very fit person to have walked up this mountain. There on the mountain he is revelled to his closest friends who he actually is. Sometimes we have extraordinary mountains to climb and we can feel that we are not fit and cannot do it. We are also a lot of the time carrying a heavy load with us on our back. These things that we have on our backs often feel like an impossible burden to carry. And yet we struggle on. We may stumble at times and lack behind and on steep gradients ...

Ash Wednesday morning I was listening to the radio and they were discussing Lent. In the discussion there was a general idea that Lent was good for us. It was a time when we could give things up to make us feel better. What are you doing for Lent? If Lent therefore becomes a quest to lose weight or to male ourselves feel better then we need to ask ourselves what exactly the meaning is of lent. Lent is a time when we stop in our busy lives and focus our minds away from self and on God. If in the process we lose weight or feel better about ourselves then that’s good. But, it should not be focused on self but on our relationship with Jesus. This is golden opportunity to have a spiritual spring clean and look towards the Lord in prayer and fasting and works of charity so that we can come to the Lord at Easter knowing him a little better than we do now. But, this Lent I want to focus myself to talking about one aspect of getting closer to God and that is in the sacrament of reconcil...