Woman: two women It's so easy to miss little details, especially in well-known scripture with familiar themes. Things like time and place, or nuances of spee...

Sharing a reflection from #HeavensArchives on today's #Gospel of the woman saved from stoning

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And you...? What impels you to make known the #love & #mercy you know you have received?

#SimplyLent #Lent #Choice4God #SimplyLife #HeavensHighlights

Blessed with this cross There is something intensely moving about queues in a church. The diversity of backgrounds, nations and ages... the fragile alongside the he...

Good #AshWednesday morning to you all! I will be going to Mass this evening, so no #ashtag to share: but for now... Here's last year's, courtesy of #HeavensArchives 💜

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#Lent2026 #Lent #SimplyLent #Choice4God #NunsOfBlueSky #HeavensHighlights

In praise of... January Mnemonic Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February hath twenty-eight. All the rest have...

Good #BlueMonday morning!

3 years ago Heaven & I decided to counter the general dislike/disparagement of #January which always seems to get a bad press. Maybe today's a good day to re-share this, from #HeavensArchives

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#HeavensHighlights

Dilexi Te Advent God is merciful love, and his plan of love, which unfolds and is fulfilled in history, is above all his descent and coming among us to free ...

Happy #Epiphany!

#12DaysOfHeaven #2025InReview Day 12

And in December, I spent #Advent leading a group reflecting on #DilexiTe, #PopeLeo 's document on God's love & ours for the poor, vulnerable & excluded

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#HeavensArchives #HeavensHighlights

Jubilee, hope and 225 The other day I was thinking about the 21st November 1800. This was the day when our Society was born: when a fervent, courageous and quietl...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 11 - bonus post

Because in November we celebrated the Society of the #SacredHeart's 225th birthday - during #Jubilee2025

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#2025InReview #HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #NunsOfBlueSky #SimplyLife #Choice4God

Shining brightly Today, in the worldwide Society of the Sacred Heart, we are celebrating St Philippine Duchesne, our second saint and first missionary, whose...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 11

In November, in the Society of the #SacredHeart, we celebrate St Philippine Duchesne, our 2nd saint and 1st pioneering missionary...

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#2025InReview #HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #NunsOfBlueSky

Pure gift and sheer grace Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated. ~ Simone Wei...

#12DaysOfHeaven #2025InReview Day 10

And in October, to my delight, the gift of my #RSCJ Aussie best friend being able to stay with me for a few days...
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#YearInReview #HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #SimplyLife #friendship

No place I would rather be Once a month my local Catholic church hosts Youth 2000 for an evening of eucharistic adoration, which I attend whenever I can, even if only ...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview - Day 9

And in September, I moved house, after 4 years at L's bend...

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#2025InReview #HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #SimplyLife #NunsOfBlueSky

Layers, roots and a coral call Almost two weeks ago, I quietly marked thirty-five years since that unforgettable day when, after several months of a gradual, increasing fa...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 8

And in August's sunshine and heat I pondered and drew lessons from my garden's untrammelled greenery

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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #2025InReview #SimplyLife #NunsOfBlueSky

I am not like Thomas... I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see, But I plainly call thee Lord and God as he: Let me to a deeper faith each day nearer move, Daily ...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 7

And I started July reflecting on #StThomas, wounds, and some recent visits to the LOUDfence in Westminster Cathedral

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@loudfenceuk.bsky.social
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Twelve baskets and more Our early summer has oozed into a midsummer heatwave. Here at L's bend the air is oven-hot and heavy, the magnolia has already started its s...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview - Day 6, bonus post

Because in June, on #CorpusChristi I celebrated the 22nd anniversary of my perpetual #vows, reflecting on God's generosity...

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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #2025InReview #NunsOfBlueSky

We can never love too much It's already June, the month of blooming roses and fragrant jasmine, and days, here in the northern hemisphere, stretching through warm leng...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 6

June is the month of the #SacredHeart, the focus with which Heaven and I started the month...

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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #2025InReview #SimplyLife #NunsOfBlueSky

Only Jesus and his glory Regular readers of this blog might recall that every year, around mid-May, I begin asking St Madeleine Sophie what she would like me to writ...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview - Day 5 bonus post

Because in May, #RSCJ & the wider #SacredHeart family celebrate the feast of our founder, #StMadeleineSophie
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#2025InReview #HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #BeingSacredHeart

The Conclave, and our three Rs This Easter, in addition to celebrating the Resurrection, I had the joy of seeing a friend get confirmed at the Easter Vigil. I gave her a c...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 5

And we began May, still in #Easter tide, praying for the #Conclave and wondering who our new #Pope would be...
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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #2025InReview #PopeLeoXIV

All is born to blossom Christ is risen! These words capture the entire meaning of our existence, for we were not made for death but for life. ~ Easter Sunday final...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 4

And in April, we lost #PopeFrancis, the Pope of hope and encounter, mercy, inclusion, the poor and so much more...
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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #SimplyLife #NunsOfBlueSky

Loved to the moon and back Four years ago I downloaded a step counter onto my phone. It almost immediately felt ill-fated: within days I had a bad flare-up of sciatica...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 3

And in March, I started walking to the moon (I've since made it to Venus as well, and I'm currently 223.9 miles away from Mars!)
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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #2025InReview #SimplyLife #NunsOfBlueSky

God's YES to me For all that has been, thank you. For all that is to come, YES ~ Dag Hammarskjöld When religious celebrate the anniversary of their vows, pe...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 1 - bonus post

In January, I also marked the 30th anniversary of the day I became a novice in the Society of the #SacredHeart

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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #BeingSacredHeart

Following and filled with light Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you... and... his glory will be seen upon you... ~ Isaiah 60...

#12DaysOfHeaven #YearInReview Day 1

And I started 2025 in filmmaker mode, creating a little video filled with light - and Shaun the sheep!

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#HeavensHighlights #HeavensArchives #SimplyChristmas #ChristmasLights

In praise of... the leftie vein of love It's Left-Handers Day today, a relatively low-key event, halfway through the summer holidays, dedicated to about 10% of the population. And...

Happy #InternationalLeftHandersDay to all the sinister lefties! Today let's raise our [preferably un-smudged] left hands, and make known our general awesomeness!

From #HeavensArchives ~
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#LeftHandersDay #lefty #mancini #HeavensHighlights

Ten years on Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 bombs in London in which 52 people died. At the time I was living in Newham, a very multi-cult...

We kept calm... and we kept close.

On this 20th anniversary of the 7/7 #londonbombings I've delved into #HeavensArchives, and found this, from 10 years ago...

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#London #SimplyLife #HeavensHighlights

The experience of Peter and Paul I hope that everyone might have the experience of Peter and Paul; namely that the love of Jesus Christ may save their life and drive them to...

Happy feast of #SaintsPeterandPaul to you all!

And a quick delve into #HeavensArchives for a reflection on these saints, who have featured throughout my life...

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#HeavensHighlights #Catholic #BlueSkySisters #RSCJ #SimplyLife #Choice4God

Seeped into every sense Yet this is how He comes. Through wine and bread Love chooses to be emptied into me. He does not come in unimagined light Too bright to b...

As if the #SacredHeart wasn't more than enough, yesterday was also the 55th anniversary of my First Communion!

Here's a little something from #HeavensArchives - and if you're a cradle Catholic, maybe it sparks a few fond memories of your own?

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Heatwave at L's bend Summer - and L's bend - are still at their lushest and greenest. The magnolia has begun its lesser, more subdued second flowering, and some ...

From #HeavensArchives: Heatwave at L's bend, written in mid-July 2022, but just as easily about mid-June 2025

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#heatwave #summersolstice #HeavensHighlights #SimplyLife #NunsOfBlueSky

Lilies of the valley

Lilies of the valley

Happy feast of #StJosephTheWorker to you all, especially all who work to protect & increase the #DignityOfWork

I've long associated these flowers with today, as per this, from #HeavensArchives

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#InternationalWorkersDay #DignityOfLabour

Let Love love you Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all ~ From When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Isaac Watts A few days ago, while leafi...

'But the challenge and the call persists. Let Love love you...'

A #MaundyThursday post, from #HeavensArchives, as we enter the sacred #Triduum

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#SimplyLife #SimplyLent #Choice4God #NunsOfBlueSky #HeavensHighlights #Lent #Easter

Not with malice but with love Reading about St Patrick today, I was especially struck by the fact that, having escaped from slavery in Ireland, he returned several year...

'The way to healing can never be through retaliating against the one who has wounded us, but through loving them...'

Not with malice but with love:
Something from #HeavensArchives, for #StPatricksDay 💚

#HeavensHighlights
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Lent, love and a clean sheet Today there is a confluence: Ash Wednesday blended with St Valentine, and a hundred memes bringing ashes together with hearts, repentance wi...

As it's #ShroveTuesday, I've delved into last year's #HeavensArchives for this 👇

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So now you know how I like to start #Lent - and yes, my bed is already stripped!

#HeavensHighlights #Lent2025 #SimplyLife #Choice4God #Catholic

Our Lenten springtime This is the season when late winter oozes gently into early spring. The weather is generally milder; the days visibly lengthening, with the ...

Good #MondayMorning to you all!

A little something from #HeavensArchives, as we prepare for #Lent... (and yes, I have emerging daffodils beside me!)

#HeavensHighlights #SimplyLife
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What does love look like? What does love look like?  This timeless question was posed by St Augustine, who went on to supply the equally timeless answer:  It has the ...

As we end the month which included #StValentinesDay, two weeks ago... a little reminder from that day about what love can really look like...

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#HeavensArchives #HeavensHighlights #NunsOfBlueSky

Passion for Love Last Sunday's Gospel was the Jubilee Gospel, in which Jesus announces the year of the Lord's favour. Reading from Isaiah he reminds his list...

Happy #ValentinesDay everyone, happy day for LOVE! There's a blog about this in Heaven's pipeline, but for now, here's a recent little something from #HeavensArchives

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#HeavensHighlights #SimplyLife #Valentine