Second Sunday of Advent

Use some or all of this reflection to help guide your personal journey through this week of Advent. Reflect Prepare to be expanded. Author Stephanie Duncan Smith writes of Mary’s yes to God as a choice for expansion over contraction, mirroring God’s own yes in creation: Genesis tells the story of God’s radical choice for […]

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First Sunday of Advent 2025

Use some or all of this reflection to guide you through this week of Advent. Reflect Prepare to wait and move at the speed of love! How will you move into this time of advent? There’s so much to do. SO much to prepare. And the pace of life is frantic anyway! Can you imagine […]

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Sixth Sunday of Lent – Palm Sunday

Use some or all of this reflection to help guide your personal journey through this week of Lent. Reflect We begin in earnest the week with Jesus, and his final Easter journey. It takes courage and also a certain steadfastness to hear again the age-old stories, stories that are familiar, yet… perhaps arrive in our […]

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Fifth Sunday in Lent

Use some or all of this reflection to help guide your personal journey through this week of Lent. Reflect ‘Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love’ Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, 1910-1997 and Brian Kolodiejchuk. 2007. Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light : The Private Writings […]

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Fourth Sunday in Lent

Use some or all of this reflection to help guide your personal journey through this week of Lent. Reflect Something about the reading from Luke this week is so familiar to so many people it is easy to dismiss it. Yet, it holds so much for us to reflect upon, to wonder at, to bring […]

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Third Sunday in Lent

Use some or all of this reflection to help guide your personal journey through this week of Lent. Reflect ‘There have always been those who speak of God as Wholly Other, inconceivable and remote, utterly unlike our abortive attempts to picture him in our own image. Others have come to see God as the Reality […]

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Second Sunday in Lent

Use some or all of this reflection to help guide your personal journey through this week of Lent. Reflect Now we are moving into the thick of Lent. Of course we have questions, issues, excuses even. But then there is the simple call – ‘return to me’. This is the journey Jesus is making. Can […]

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First Sunday in Lent

Use some or all of this reflection to help guide your personal journey through this week of Lent. Reflect We do not have to be out in a desert to be in the wilderness. There are so many experiences that speak to us of this word. And it can be everything from a daily slog, […]

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Ash Wednesday 2025

Welcome back to the St Mary Magdalene’s blog. For Lent 2025 Alison and Leonie have compiled a weekly reflection to use in whatever way may assist in the Journey towards Easter. We have used a number of sources: The reflections will be published for Ash Wednesday and each Sunday in Lent. We hope they will […]

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Learning Jesus: part 9

This is the last of the meditations in the series Learning Jesus. We hope you have enjoyed the series. Fr Philip Carter is taking a break from writing so we will not be publishing further meditations for the time being. Previous posts on this blog will remain as a resource for all who would like […]

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