The Hesychast: September 2010

Friday 17 September 2010

Mini Update!!!!!!

I got back from Douai and had the greatest time there! The monks were so human, so normal, they had none of that pious bulls*** you get from some Christians. What you saw was what you got, they were literally as one of the brothers put it "we're ordinary people trying to do an extraordinary thing". The silence, the work, the prayer all taught me things I would never have learnt elswhere. One day I had a conversation with The Abbot who was full of wisdom and truly spiritual insight shared with me some of his thoughts on the relation between Wesley and Benedict and I was totally taken back by some of his words - truly inspirational!

Results day happened and yepp I passed my A-Levels and am going to study Theology at Wesley House Cambridge, the Methodist Theological college there :)

I move in on Monday so I'm in the midst of packing, I promise to blog properly once I get set up there ohhh and YAYYYYYYYYY lol I handed in my final lot of Faith and Worship assignments so accreditation is not far off!

Favourite Quotes, Sayings, other random things.....

Just as a long distance proves a good horse, time proves a good person. (Anon)

Only a fool is bitten by a chained dog (N.T Wright)

An eye for and eye and soon the whole world will be blind. (Ghandi)

Your imperfections die 15 minutes after you do (Anon)

I am only a pencil in the hand of God. (Mother Theresa)

Preach at all times, when useful use words. (St. Francis)

If you are what you were made to be, you will set the whole world on fire. (Dominican Sister)

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice, everything is lost by failure to obey God's call. (Henry P. Liddon)

Eat well, Sleep well, Pray well. (St. Dominic)

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. (John Wesley)

I'm a sexy man of God and I know it! (John Corbett in Raising-Helen)

Bishop Desmond Tutu in a sermon at Southwark Cathedral in 2004:“The Jesus I worship is not likely to collaborate with those who vilify and persecute an already oppressed minority. I myself could not have opposed the injustice of penalizing people for something about which they could do nothing - their race - and then have kept quiet as women were being penalized for something they could do nothing about - their gender, and hence my support inter alia, for the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate. And equally”, he said, “I could not myself keep quiet whilst people were being penalized for something about which they could do nothing, their sexuality. For it is so improbable that any sane, normal person would deliberately choose a lifestyle exposing him or her to so much vilification, opprobrium and physical abuse, even death. To discriminate against our sisters and brothers who are lesbian or gay on grounds of their sexual orientation, for me is as totally unacceptable and unjust as Apartheid ever was”.