Peter Blog a few random thoughts

Lent has the Stations of the Cross which is a way of getting into the story of the last journey of Jesus When thinking about this I thought of the Journey of Mary and how her stations might be able to help us through Advent. I have chosen 7 significant parts of the story of Our Lady which we will briefly explore. They will be the Annunciation, The Visitation the Journey to Bethlehem, The Birth of our Lord, the flight into Egypt, The Prophecy of Simenon and the Loosing of the Child in the Temple. The Annunciation: LK1:26-37 Probably the greatest story of Vocation. It is the call of Mary. How must she had felt? Scared, apprehensive, maybe a little in wonder. Mary is greeted by the Angel “Greetings” he says or hello or simply rejoice. It seems that Luke probably wants us to see that this invitation is one of Joy. We see this joy reflected in the prophets for the people to rejoice at coming of the Messiah. The next thing that we notice is what the Angel says to Mary that she is bles...

On a warm Thursday afternoon in June I was walking through Bognor high road. It was warm and I was enjoying the heat of the day. I happened to peer through a window to have a look at what they were selling when I saw a table filled with Christmas Cards. It seems that we want celebrate Christmas too early and then it comes around to the actual day we are totally feed up with Christmas. I saw my first Christmas advert on TV on the first day of November. And yet we have a whole four weeks called advent to help us prepare for Christmas before it even arrives. So we need to do advent well. But how? Lent seems to me to be easier to attach things on too. We have Stations of the Cross Fasting a focus on Reconciliation and God’s immense love and mercy on us who are sinners.  Advent is harder. So what can we say about Advent? I think that the first thing and the most important thing to is to experience the spirituality of waiting in expectant ant anticipation. There is one thin ...