St Beuno’s Outreach is based in St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre in the hills of North Wales, in the Diocese of Wrexham. The Outreach began in 1989, with the idea of helping people develop and maintain a personal relationship with God through Christ by praying the Word of God in the Sunday liturgy. From a prayerful awareness of the Spirit working in and through us will come a sense of mission, a desire to join Christ in his mission.
FOUR ANCHOR POINTS
- PREPARATION
Choose your place of prayer. Make yourself comfortable, you may like to light a candle. Get in touch with your feelings: What is my frame of mind? What do I want to say to the Lord; what do I desire?
- ENTRY INTO PRAYER
Become quiet and still. Relax. Try to put aside any distractions. Choose a passage of scripture. Make the sign of the cross, visibly or in your heart. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide your prayer. Read your chosen text slowly several times. Notice what comforts or disturbs you.
- SLOW EXIT FROM PRAYER
Speak to the Lord in your own words about this time of prayer, what has it meant to you. Perhaps finish with the Glory be to the Father or a favourite prayer of your own. Make a sign of the cross, internal or external. Leave your place of prayer, thanking God for the time he has spent with you.
- REFLECTION AFTER PRAYER
Ask for whatever grace you need to respond to our Lord, “with my whole heart, my whole soul, my whole mind”. If possible, do this in a different place. Recall the prayer period: Was it good to be at prayer? Did you learn something; maybe feel that the Lord was asking something of you? Notice how you are feeling now. You may find it helpful to jot down your thoughts in a notebook.
Holy Week with St Beuno’s Outreach
Using our Senses to be with Jesus
Our St Beuno’s Outreach Holy Week booklet this year takes its inspiration from a reflection by Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ on ‘Making sense of the application of the senses’. You can either read the booklet online, or download it to print it out.
We will also be hosting a Zoom event entitled ‘Encounters in Holy Week’ on Monday 25th March at 7pm UK time. Everyone is most welcome to this. Please contact us for the link nearer the time.
St Beuno’s Outreach sends you warmest good wishes and prayers as we continue our Lenten journey.
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