In today's newspapers which this blogger scans daily, Canon Anthony McBride, Dean of Salford said in relation to the report that confessions are up 65% in Catholic Cathedrals, that "a positive experience of talking about yourself with somebody and bringing God into the equation is found to be helpful to a lot of people".
This raises the blogger's spirits, makes the blogger optimistic because it shows that despite having access to every sort of device which we think connects us to each other and to information, we really have a heartfelt need to get straight with ourselves. Although not a Roman Catholic, the idea of going into one of those velvet curtained boxes in a quiet Church with a kindly priest listening to the dreadful mistakes I have made is rather attractive but I am hoping that turning to that same presence in meditation. Well aware of all the human errors made, I am given a chance of renewal of spirit and a space to face up to those grisly bothersome niggling tiresome faults in my individual thinking. I hope that each day I try to be a bit better because of meditation and not just expect that everything and everyone around me gets better!
This blogger is already a fan of Pope Francis as well as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Father Laurence Freeman, Rev Alice Goodman, Rabbi Jonathan Sachs, Father Rob Marshall, Laura Hyde, Catherine Thomlinson,Valery Rees, Donald Lambie, Richard Burnett and Sylvia Leiserach. Four of these will be at St Martin-in-the-Fields on November 20th so you can become a fan too.
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