Dear Anima Sisters and Friends, Welcome to Spring 2019. We hope our newest blog reflections will, like Spring, bring you some green shoots of faith and hope! Our Anima contributions are aimed at nurturing the soul - despite hearing from each other how dispiriting the year has been. There is serious drought in some parts … Continue reading A letter for you – Sorrowing With Our Mother
On this Vigil of the feast of Our Lady of Dolours - or Our Lady of Sorrows, we felt that the ancient poem of the Stabat Mater would be an apt relaunch back into the world of this website. Let us pray that we can be inspired by this most holy of women who stood … Continue reading The Stabat Mater
Sleep has been a capricious friend to me. There are nights when we are thick as thieves, and others where sleep deserts me and I lie awake for hours. Over the years I have tried different tactics; including praying the Rosary. Many people say that the Rosary is a sure fire sedative... not for me! … Continue reading Churlishness, Sleep and the Rosary
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. (1 Corinthans 12:12,26) There has been much outpouring of horror, grief and … Continue reading The Body of Christ – #Sackclothandashes
