Guest Contributor, Author at Mucknell Abbey

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Mucknell Abbey

26 Jan When Grit Becomes a Pearl

Posted at 10:46h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

‘Arise and drink your bliss, for everything that lives is holy.’ - William Blake, ‘Visions of the Daughters of Albion’....

Prayer

02 Mar Prayer 101: Some thoughts on prayer

Posted at 09:25h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

Not that we love God, but that God loves us...

bird singing

28 Feb O Lord, open thou our lips

Posted at 10:00h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

A friend of mine was recently telling me about the abundance of grace in his life. Since his retirement in...

Sundial

30 Jan The Rhythm of the Kingdom

Posted at 11:07h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

We are still within Christmastide, forty days from Christmas Day to Candlemas (2 February). Part of the personality of Christmas...

oak tree painting

22 Dec Love bade me welcome

Posted at 18:02h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

A good friend of mine died a year and a half ago. I recently gathered with his family to plant...

stillness

30 Nov In search of stillness…

Posted at 11:52h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

Immediately I arrive at Mucknell Abbey, I pick up its rhythms, its pace, its quiet activity. I am here for...

books

09 Nov Make your hearts glad as you are able

Posted at 18:13h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

Advent is looming: time, in the words of one of my favourite Advent carols (‘People, Look East’) to ‘trim the...

Conch

31 Oct Like listening to the sea

Posted at 15:03h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

I like to think of my friends at Mucknell speaking or singing the daily office during my working day. I...

pouring tea

06 May Just Let Me Love You

Posted at 15:58h in Poetry, Prayer and Meditations by Guest Contributor

This silent prayer was a surprise. We had just finished Vespers, the sixth time of prayer that day, and frankly...