Sacred Heart Day, Heart of Life, Kensington Monastery, Blackburn parish
You have the weekend to look at all these photos. Thanks to Clare Sherman and Hoa Tran – and, in Sydney, Peter Hendriks.
Lunch at Heart of Life
From Clare Shearman: “A feast for a feast day” was the invitation to friends and colleagues to come for lunch at Heart of Life today. Around 25 MSCs, staff, volunteers, students and friends of Heart of Life gathered for a short blessing and a long lunch.
Paul Castley MSC provided a short reflection and prompted us to connect with the suffering in the world with open hearts to truly ‘be on earth the heart of God’ in bringing healing where we can.
We were led in a time of blessing by Peter Hay and Marlene McGrath (Heart of Life Supervisors).
They encouraged us to reflect on how we had experienced God’s heart on earth and/or how we had been God’s heart on earth in the last week. Some answers included “being welcomed with open hands”, “helping someone after an accident”, “listening to another without judgement”, “being able to be myself”, “being honoured by others for my work.”
Susannah Tan organised the feast as well as this fabulous photo backdrop for us all to enjoy. The day is not over yet – we are off to Blackburn to join in with the MSC celebrations in the Parish there.
You will find this after the Kensington gallery.
Lunch at Kensington Monastery
Steve Dives, Martin Wilson, John Frith
Catherine Molihan
Terry Naughton, Frank Dineen
Chris McPhee, Jim Littleton
Tan, Kevin Ehlefeldt
Patrick Sharpe
Chris Murphy, Anne McAtomney
Ben Fleming
To Blackburn, Evening Mass in the parish.
Mark Hanns presiding, Vincent serving,
Peter Malone using clips from Passion of the Christ and Jesus of Nazareth for a homily.
