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   Sarah de Nordwall says:

   11 April 2020 at 11:10 am

   Thank you for all these beautiful healing words and all your hard work on our behalf. In this loving space that has been created, I was musing yesterday. I’m not sure why it’s in the past tense but … here it is! a poem…

   Untitled

   I remember Covid 19
   As the time I learnt to hold a broom

   Not to make impressive flights
   Into rhetoric and transformation
   Moving at a constant speed from place to place,
   But to sweep the floor,
   Clean.

   I remember the lock down
   As the time I learnt to hold a trowel
   And turn a pot of earth
   Upside down
   To take out the unwanted roots
   For a new planting.

   Sometimes it takes a global meltdown
   To take the old things out of the fridge
   And attend to what’s been left in the freezer
   For years.

   Afterwards, in the midst of the coffins and the universal grief,
   And the sense of bewilderment
   At what the infinitely small
   Can do to the infinitely larger,

   Will I carry forward the essential rituals
   Into the world to come
   And keep it fresh?
   Or will I succumb
   To the old order
   when large was important
   And small was unseen?

   I hope not,
   Friend and enemy
   Covid 19.

   Sarah de Nordwall
   Good Friday 2020
   Verbum Dei Retreat

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     Andrea says:

     11 April 2020 at 11:49 am

     Very profound Sarah. God bless you
     Andrea

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     Monica says:

     11 April 2020 at 4:50 pm

     Thank you so much Sarah! Looking back from the future into our present – an Easter we will never forget. A friend and enemy that has put us in touch with what is essential.

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   Margarida Londral says:

   11 April 2020 at 11:11 am

   Hello everyone, Clarifying what a One to One Conversation moment is.
   This is not Spiritual Direction (because now it’s just a one off), nor confession (it’s not allowed to have online confession), nor counselling (very valuable if you feel you’d need to). All these are helpful means. But this moment of one to one conversion, wants to offer you a possibility to share your prayer or any issue searching for light. It will be up to 30min conversation, with one of us missionaries.

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   Sarah de Nordwall says:

   11 April 2020 at 2:20 pm

   and one from today…..

   SPACIOUS

   SPACIOUS
   is the opposite of Macbeth:
   “Cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in
   To saucy doubts and fears.

   SPACIOUS
   is room for the caged bird to sing
   and take wing
   when the door is opened
   from without
   and within.

   SPACIOUS
   Is how one’s timetable feels
   When kindness is the gate to lean on
   Between one neighbourly activity
   And another

   SPACIOUS
   Is the world that has been redeemed
   By the outstretched arms of the Lover
   Of everything

   SPACIOUS
   Is the energy of the green leaves opening
   In an ecstasy of readiness
   For the sun.

   SPACIOUS
   Is the heart you have given me today
   That your Infinite Kingdom
   Come.

   Holy Saturday
   Verbum Dei Retreat 2020

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     Margarida Londral says:

     11 April 2020 at 3:52 pm

     Here are the websites that you can connect for the Vigil Mass with the Pope at 8pm (UK time):
     https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html
     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIsefyl9g9A5SGWA4FvGIA

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   Catherine Teo says:

   12 April 2020 at 6:52 am

   Thank you all for your sharings! It really helped to open my eyes and see Him speaking to me personally and helped me to listen & be filled, to see where my hunger and thirst is and to rely on Him and let Him clean/work in me by letting go, letting Him. It was a really meaningful Easter Vigil and it really also helped me to see hope as the Rabbis helped the Jews during their time of exile, in the darkness. God created goodness and plans for goodness!

   “May the whole world know and see
   that what was cast down is raised up,
   what had become old is made new,
   and all things are restored to integrity through Christ,
   just as by Him they came into being.”

   ^^ Blessed Easter to all! (: