There’s a BBC period drama series that comes on the PBS channel on Sunday nights at 10:00. Each week, I look forward to the unfolding stories, involving nurse-midwives, some of whom are religious sisters, from a fictional Anglican Convent called Nonatus House; they provide nursing care and counseling, to the poor, women (and their families),…
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For Your Reflection
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
To Be As A Weaned Child
I have been contemplating the meaning of a particular psalm in the last couple of days. The truth is, I have known this Psalm…131, word for word, since 1984. It is the psalm every student must learn, upon entering The Holy Woods – the name by which past and present students affectionately and reverently, refer…
For Your Reflection
Psalm 131King James Version 1Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. 3 Let Israel…
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