Spirituality is to prayer what handwriting is to the written word. It is the particular style of each community, each religious order, each person. It is part of the profound richness of Holy Spirit’s gifts – different for each one, yet all part of a unified whole.

 It is an act of Christian friendship to share with one another about prayer, about our understanding of how God is with us. It encourages us, builds us up, and teaches us to delight in each other’s graces.

 These humble little pages are the attempts of the Ampleforth Community to use the web to do this. The interconnection of each one with everyone else on the internet seems to imitate the original pattern of the interconnectedness of all those who belong to Christ. It can serve the Good News!

The mind seeks to understand the why and how of the Christian life, in order to adhere and respond to what the Lord is asking. The required attentiveness is difficult to sustain. We are usually helped by books…: the Sacred Scriptures, particularly the Gospels, holy icons, liturgical texts of the day or season, writings of the spiritual fathers, works of spirituality, the great book of creation, and that of history  --  the page on which the "today" of God is written. (Catechism of the Catholic Church)

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