Wilderness Virtues - Lent Series
This is a series of 5 addresses given at Compline in St Mary's Church Swansea through Lent 2021 PRAYER & TRANQUILITY The reading from the gospel according to Mark Ch 1 vs. 35. ‘In the morning, while it was still very dark, he (Jesus) got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed…’ When I was in Theological College (and I don’t need you to show how impressed you are by this !!) I was Senior Student for a year – it sounds lot more grand than it was, but one of the achievements that I was most proud of was reducing the time of silence within the morning and evening prayer service – after each of the readings we used to have what seemed like an eternity of silence…. I hated it – I am not good at silence – my mind seems to just wander off in all kinds of directions although most of my thoughts are centred upon my desire for the silence to end soon. But whilst I was proud of myself at the time, I do actually recognise that there are real benefits in just sp