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Jamberoo Abbey
Locality: Jamberoo, New South Wales
Address: 695 Jamberoo Mountain Rd 2533 Jamberoo, NSW, Australia
Website: http://www.jamberooabbey.org.au/
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25.01.2022 On this day of "Thanksgiving" in the US, let us continue to pray for healing, peace and a spirit of new life and hope for our American friends and oblates. Even though we do not share this most beautiful of holy days and celebrations with them, it still invites us to pause awhile and enter into the heart of its message...being thankful! A very Happy Thanksgiving to all US citizens and expats today!
24.01.2022 Last week, on Mother Mary's feast day, we spoke of the fact that she has been letting her creativity loose again after so many years of dedication as the Abbess of our community. To celebrate this, our Craft Department has just released a new range of candles featuring Mother Mary's designs and carvings. These are all wax candles, hand moulded, carved and painted. The photo below shows the main styles but there are also candles featuring crosses available. You can view sizes and prices on our website and you can be sure that they have been made with Mary's love and prayer! Click here to see the full range - https://www.jamberooabbey.org.au/product-category//all-wax/
15.01.2022 Each year as we prepare to enter Advent, that most beautiful season of hope and promise, this little verse from Jan Richardson is etched on our FB page and in our hearts... "The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before. It is not possible to keep it from coming, because it will. That's just how Advent works.... What is possible is not to see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God's hindquarters fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon." ~ from Night Visions by Jan Richardson Blessings on this vigil of Advent...let us pray for one another that we will be able to "stay", "sit", "wonder" with our Advent horizon.
14.01.2022 We are sending prayers and thoughts this morning to all our Oblates and FB friends in South Australia as they move into Day 2 of their very strict lockdown. The news so far is good, so we are with you all in hoping this swift response to the Covid cluster will see you returning to normal life (with much rejoicing!) very soon. Stay strong!
13.01.2022 Weekend. Stop. Together. Back. Quiet. Silent. Clear. Enjoy. Yes! Stopping brings your body & mind together, back to the here and now. When you stop & sit quietly & become silent within, you become more ... clear ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
11.01.2022 Absolutely love this from South African artist Robyn Gordon. Starting now!
09.01.2022 First Sunday of Advent...O Come! Happy Advent to all our Oblates and Facebook friends! May this most beautiful season fill your hearts with the HOPE and JOY of the coming of our Emmanuel. I am reflecting this morning on that wonderful word, HOPE! JOY too and that will increase as Advent unfolds, but HOPE, well that lies at the heart of our lives and living...or you could say, at the heart of our reason to keep living no matter what life throws at us. We hope...and we keep ...hoping... An anonymous source quoted by Sr. Stan of Dublin offers: 'When the world says, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’ Hope is where we are as Advent begins." So, as we begin, may HOPE rise boldly and shine brightly in our hearts! Whatever "it" is in our lives, let's try it one more time...with the hope and promise of the God who comes. Sr Hildegard's reflections on today's Readings can be found here: https://www.jamberooabbey.org.au//2020/11/Lectio5-29.1120- Image ~our first candle of Advent HOPE is lit at Vigils this morning!
09.01.2022 O come, O come, Emmanuel! Image by our friend, Susan Daily ibvm.
05.01.2022 An evening benediction for us all...
05.01.2022 A little wisdom from Curly Flat to help us as we navigate our mid-week living..."loving, understanding and forgiving"!
05.01.2022 A blessing as we begin a new day and week... May this be a morning of innocent beginning, when the gift within you slips clear of the sticky web of the personal... with its hurt and hauntings, and fixed fortress corners, A morning when you become a pure vessel for what wants to ascend from silence, May your imagination know the grace of perfect danger, To reach beyond imitation, and the wheel of repetition, Deep into the call of all the unfinished and unsolved Until the veil of the unknown yields and something original begins to stir toward your senses and grow stronger in your heart... ~John O'Donohue Image ~ Sunrise at Port Willunga SA by Sea.of.Lights
04.01.2022 We are delighted to let our Oblates and Facebook friends know that we are beginning to offer online retreats. The first of these is a 40 day experience with the title, "The Leading Strings of Love". During the retreat, participants will be led through three interconnecting 'movements' by which a soul is drawn into an ever deepening relationship with Christ. If you desire to:... * gently give yourself to being exposed to ever deepening depths of relationship with the person of Christ; * know yourself in a new way, having come to see the necessity of stripping off the old and tattered clothes of ego domination; * allow the spirit to breathe within and through yourself to others and * "prefer nothing whatever to Christ." Rule of St Benedict (R.B. 72:11) this retreat is for you! The retreat has been prepared by Sr Antonia Curtis OSB who has been involved in spiritual direction for over 30 years. She will be your guide throughout the 40 days. For more information and to register, click on the link below. https://www.jamberooabbey.org.au//leading-strings-of-love/
01.01.2022 Solemnity of Christ the King "Whatever you do to the least of my sisters and brothers, you do unto me." Matthew 25 In a recent reflection shared on today's Gospel, Sr Hildegard invited us to view this text and the feast of Christ the King in a different way. Instead of contemplating Christ in glory, she said the feast leads us back to the Mystery of the Incarnation, the great feast of God coming to us as LOVE in human flesh -... "This parable of the last judgment presents every person (through the mystery of the Incarnation), as Christ clothed in human flesh. When a Christian does anything out of love for another person, that other is Christ whatever is done is done for Christ. Thus this text is really about the Mystery of the Incarnation. Until we accept in faith this Mystery, we cannot understand Matthew 25. Christ in the sick, the poor, the child who is a slave worker, and the child who is well-cared for; the parents, grandparents who pour out their lives for family; those with whom we live, work, eat, exercise, celebrate, grieve and mourn. Because of the Incarnation, everyone in my life is to be reverenced and respected from the least to the greatest." Todays' Image: At the HEART of the Universe (and the kingdom) - Love by Mary Southard CSJ
