Monastic Living @ The Northumbria Community
Welcome to our School for Monastic Living: 'Those who entered the desert entered a kind of school, a school in which loving as God loves was the primary and foundational lesson.' – Mary C. Earle
Today we invite you to join us as we wind our way across the stepping stones to Cuthbert’s Island, where we can take some time to pause awhile…
Here on Cuthbert’s Island we can leave our everyday distractions to look inwards, as a hermit does, to face their own heart and ponder the true might of God…
Continue reading “2020 Lenten Reflections: A Holy Island Pilgrimage – Part 10”
Today’s reflections recalls the second of two specific women whose lives invite us to reflect on our own lived experiences…
Mary Fleeson invites us to solve the puzzle of Jenny Bell’s well, as we seek to find refreshment under the rubble where the water used to flow…
Continue reading “2020 Lenten Reflections: A Holy Island Pilgrimage – Part 9”
Today’s reflections recalls the first of two specific women whose lives invite us to reflect on our own lived experiences…
Andy Raine invites us to pause at Mo’s seat, which can be found around the look-out tower on the Heugh…
Continue reading “2020 Lenten Reflections: A Holy Island Pilgrimage – Part 8”
Today is an upward climb to the Heugh, the highest point of Holy Island…
We take the steep path upwards to the Heugh where Mark Fleeson reminds us of the many ways in which this vantage point has been significant over the years, not least in Aidan’s time, when his far-seeing eyes scanned the horizon for the joyous venturing of little boats…
Continue reading “2020 Lenten Reflections: A Holy Island Pilgrimage – Part 7”
Today we travel further out towards Castle Point, overlooking the sea …
At Castle Point, we are invited to both reflect on the patterns of our lives, by walking a labyrinth, and to gather small stones into a cairn, remembering the hard places we encounter on our journeys…
Continue reading “2020 Lenten Reflections: A Holy Island Pilgrimage – Part 6”