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08/03/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁: 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘁 💜🙏🏼✝️ 🕯️
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦.

ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ɢɪꜰᴛ ᴏꜰ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ
As this day ends, I place myself beside Jesus at the well.
I thank God for the quiet ways he was present today—
moments of grace, kindness, insight, or prayer.
Where today did I glimpse the living water God freely gives?

ʀᴇᴄᴏɢɴɪᴢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ᴛʜɪʀꜱᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ɢᴏᴅ
I ask the Holy Spirit to help me see my heart clearly.
Beneath the busyness of the day,
where did I feel a deeper thirst—for God, for meaning, for love that lasts?
Did I notice Christ gently inviting me to come closer?

ᴡᴇʟʟꜱ ɪ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴀᴄʜᴇᴅ
I slowly walk through the events of the day.
Where did I truly seek God?
Where did I turn to other wells that could not satisfy my deeper thirst—
distractions, worries, or self-reliance?
When did I pause to listen to the voice of Jesus speaking within my life?

ᴛʜɪʀꜱᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰᴜʟꜰɪʟʟᴍᴇɴᴛ
When today did I feel my heart refreshed by God—
through prayer, service, or quiet trust?
When did I feel dryness, distance, or emptiness?
What might these moments reveal
about my deeper longing for the living water Christ offers?

ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴏᴜʀᴄᴇ
I bring my thirst before Jesus, who says,
“Whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst.”
I ask for the grace to seek him more deeply tomorrow—
to desire God above all things,
and to let his living water become a spring of life within me.

🖼️🎨 Woman at the Well Painting by Jun Jamosmos

07/03/2026

One of the great gifts of the daily practice of lectio divina is that holy words stay with you and sometimes, just when you need them, they are given again. This morning "trust in the slow work of God" arrived as memory, as gift, as grace...

As many of us ease into this long weekend, Pierre's words might
also come as gift and grace...just when we need them!

Patient Trust

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.

And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

22/02/2026

First Sunday of Lent

"Desert" and "wilderness" are words familiar to us as we begin our Lenten journey, but in today's reflection, Jan Richardson invites us to ponder new words which might feel a bit closer to our own experience of the "landscapes" we inhabit...

"The season of Lent calls us into a landscape. Though the imagery of wilderness is dominant in Lent, this is not the primary terrain that this season invites us to enter.

We enter Lent to enter our own earth, to make a pilgrimage into our own terrain. We move into this season to look at our life anew, to consider what has formed us, where we have come from, what we are carrying within us. Lent invites us to look at the layers that inhabit us: our stories and memories, our imaginings and dreams. This season invites us to notice what in our life feels fallow or empty, where there is growth and greenness, what sources of sustenance lie within us, where we find our inner earth crumbling to reveal something new.

Lent opens our own terrain to us, that we might meet anew the God who lives in every layer of our life.

As this season begins, how might God be inviting you into the landscape that inhabits you? Is there a space within your soul that needs your attention, your compassion, your prayer? How might it be to open that space to the presence of Christ, who knows what it means to enter a difficult terrain, and who found sustenance and angels even there?"
~ Jan Richardson

Blessings of peace and breath as we enter into the terrain of our own hearts this Lent...and may there be angels to minister to us along the way!

Image ~ Into Earth by Jan Richardson
Find out more about Jan's images by visiting janrichardsonimages.com

18/02/2026

Ash Wednesday

"It is a strange anointing, this cross that comes to mark us as Lent begins. Ashes, dust, dirt: the stuff we walk upon, that we sweep away, that we work to get rid of, now comes to remind us who we are, where we are from, where we are bound.

How terrible. And how marvelous, that God should feel so tender toward the dust as to create us from it, and return us to it, breathing through us all the while. Even after releasing us from the blessed dust at the last, God continues to breathe us toward whatever it is we are becoming."
~ Jan Richardson

Let us pray for one another in all our "becoming" this Lent.

17/02/2026

Shrove Tuesday

After whipping up some pancakes, you're invited to settle down for a taste of "slow" alongside your soft creations with maple syrup or lemon juice and sugar! This prayer is the perfect accompaniment to ready us for Lent...

Slow us down for the fast.
Still our restless spirits ...
Calm our racing minds ...
Centre our being ...
Let our longing linger.

Let it take root
and create a beautiful yearning space
that has the time to ache ...
Slow us down for the fast.

Silence the siren voices ...
Wait for our weary wanting
to meet our need and find common ground ...
Hold back the driving beat of our hearts
and let the drums of our internal wars fall silent ...
Slow us down for the fast.

Before the journey begins ...
Before the wanderlust calls us ...
Before the wilderness beckons ...
and breaks our searching spirits ...
Slow us down for the fast.
~ Sally Foster-Fulton

14/02/2026

Valentine's Day

Let's take a moment today to reflect back over our lives and thank God for all the "brilliant" love that has enriched and enlarged us over the years both in giving and receiving...the love of family and friends, the love of pets, of nature, of opportunities, of place, of....?

"...You’re a soul traveler,
An explorer.
You make this place home for now;
Trying on the costumes,
Playing out your roles.
Every so often, take off your masks.
Drop your robes.
See yourself reflected in the very mirror of your life.
And remember…
When you leave this stage,
The only thing you will wonder is,
'Did I love brilliantly?'"
~Jacob Nordby

Happy day to all!

12/01/2026

Monday Morning Reflection

Today marks the beginning of "Ordinary Time" in our liturgical calendar. As mentioned yesterday, this return to "ordinary" or "getting back to normal" after celebrations and holidays can be a bit of a jolt for many of us, especially if it involves early morning rises (like us!) and starting work again (also like us!). This reflection from Victoria Erikson invites us to enter into all things "ordinary" with gentleness and simplicity. Wishing all of us many "hums of beauty" as the day and week unfolds...

I don't ever crave
extraordinary
moments anymore.
Just small, gentle
hums of beauty
streaming from below,
above, and beyond simply
from paying attention.
Sound. Light. Shadow.
Art. Warmth. The night.
The morning. Dreams that
are not faraway but
exist right here –
already in my days,
hands, and heart.
~ Victoria Erickson

Image ~ a little "hum of beauty" from Helen Davies

06/01/2026

In her homilies the medieval Abbess Hildegard of Bingen invites us to translate the Epiphany story into the soul’s journey towards new life.

31/12/2025

31 December 2025

"At The End Of The Year" by John O'Donohue invites us into a gentle examen of the year that's about to finish. May our reflection, acknowledgment and gratitude help us to claim all the light and shade of the year gone by and ready us for the opening of the new with all its hope and promise...

The particular mind of the ocean
Filling the coastline’s longing
With such brief harvest
Of elegant, vanishing waves
Is like the mind of time
Opening us shapes of days.

As this year draws to its end,
We give thanks for the gifts it brought
And how they became inlaid within
Where neither time nor tide can touch them.

The days when the veil lifted
And the soul could see delight;
When a quiver caressed the heart
In the sheer exuberance of being here.

Surprises that came awake
In forgotten corners of old fields
Where expectation seemed to have quenched.

The slow, brooding times
When all was awkward
And the wave in the mind
Pierced every sore with salt.

The darkened days that stopped
The confidence of the dawn.
Days when beloved faces shone brighter
With light from beyond themselves;
And from the granite of some secret sorrow
A stream of buried tears loosened.

We bless this year for all we learned,
For all we loved and lost
And for the quiet way it brought us
Nearer to our invisible destination.
~ John O’Donohue from Benedictus

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The Anchorage Institute- Wisdom, Spirituality & Wellbeing.

The Anchorage Institute founded by Vincent O'Grady and Kathleen Keaney offers many unique and creative models of learning, leading to personal and organisational change.

With over 20 year experience in the areas of Theology, Spirituality, Pastoral Ministry, Education and Healthcare Chaplaincy, Vincent is committed to personal transformation and becoming the person we are meant to be.

As a trained cross-professional supervisor, Personal and Group Facilitator and Spiritual Guide, Vincent offers the space for reflective practice & authentic growing and living.

Kathleen comes from a background of Theology, Spirituality and Sociology and has almost 15 years experience working in the areas of Pastoral Ministry, Hospital Chaplaincy and Person Centred Soul Accompaniment.