Comments for Roderick's Rambles http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com Philip Roderick rambles on about spirituality, his vision and passions, and maybe where he has recently "fallen totally in love with and simply must live"! Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on New Blog by Michael Dewar http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/5/#comment-179 Michael Dewar Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:18:15 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/5/#comment-179 Yes, we all need to clean our room. This cleaning has become even more urgent in view of the Second Coming Jesus. But how then shall I clean my room? The cleansing of one's mind, soul and spirit to my understanding comes through: the Word of God, the blood of Christ, and the blessed Holy Spirit. Some call call it "sanctification." The Lord will return for a holy people. Can anyone make it to heaven without holiness of life? You are certainly right about cleaning our room! Michael Yes, we all need to clean our room. This cleaning has become even more urgent in view of the Second Coming Jesus. But how then shall I clean my room?
The cleansing of one’s mind, soul and spirit to my understanding comes through: the Word of God, the blood of Christ, and the blessed Holy Spirit. Some call call it “sanctification.” The Lord will return for a holy people.
Can anyone make it to heaven without holiness of life? You are certainly right about cleaning our room!
Michael

]]> Comment on Waves of Prayer by David McDermott http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/waves-of-prayer/#comment-178 David McDermott Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:00:04 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/waves-of-prayer/#comment-178 As the author of "Prayers from Revelations of Divine Love," a translation into contemplative prayer from "Revelations of Divine Love," by Julian of Norwich, I was very pleased to read your prayers and your comments about the sea. I have been waking up some times very early, and I agree with one comment made that sometimes we have so much on that we wake up early. I have written a prayer for my next book inspired by this waking. The sound of the sea and walking along the shore has inspired me to start another prayer. I had been on a short holiday to Llandudno and I walked from there to Conway. The scenery from south shore looking over to the Welsh mountains stayed in my mind when I came home. I have a CD that has music with the sound of waves. I very often listen to this before I pray, as one person said it gets rid of the white noise. When I am writing I like to leave the windows open (weather permitting) and listen to the birds I think they draw us back to nature and to our inner peace. Kind regards David McDermott I love As the author of “Prayers from Revelations of Divine Love,” a translation into contemplative prayer from “Revelations of Divine Love,” by Julian of Norwich, I was very pleased to read your prayers and your comments about the sea.

I have been waking up some times very early, and I agree with one comment made that sometimes we have so much on that we wake up early. I have written a prayer for my next book inspired by this waking.

The sound of the sea and walking along the shore has inspired me to start another prayer. I had been on a short holiday to Llandudno and I walked from there to Conway. The scenery from south shore looking over to the Welsh mountains stayed in my mind when I came home. I have a CD that has music with the sound of waves. I very often listen to this before I pray, as one person said it gets rid of the white noise. When I am writing I like to leave the windows open (weather permitting) and listen to the birds I think they draw us back to nature and to our inner peace. Kind regards David McDermott

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]]> Comment on The Paradox of Presence by Anna Lubelska http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-177 Anna Lubelska Wed, 27 May 2009 11:44:26 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-177 Thank you for your blog posts Philip. Creative and inspiring. I look forward to more. I like all the stuff about paradox, prayer, study and action and love your incredible amount of networking and promotion of stillness and creativity. I shall tap into your energies for my spiritual mentoring if I may! Anna Thank you for your blog posts Philip. Creative and inspiring. I look forward to more. I like all the stuff about paradox, prayer, study and action and love your incredible amount of networking and promotion of stillness and creativity. I shall tap into your energies for my spiritual mentoring if I may! Anna

]]> Comment on Waves of Prayer by Dominique Payne http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/waves-of-prayer/#comment-176 Dominique Payne Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:37:27 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/waves-of-prayer/#comment-176 The picture of the sea, and the beautiful prayer-poems touched me... my love for the Lord is like the morning mist that goes away early, much to my shame... I need Him so much, yet am so weary of the struggle of this life that I hardly have energy to pray. Bless you for drawing me closer to Him, despite myself. The picture of the sea, and the beautiful prayer-poems touched me…
my love for the Lord is like the morning mist that goes away early, much to my shame… I need Him so much, yet am so weary of the struggle of this life that I hardly have energy to pray.
Bless you for drawing me closer to Him, despite myself.

]]> Comment on New Blog by Rory http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/5/#comment-175 Rory Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:53:14 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/5/#comment-175 The Church has a liturgical responsibility and an evangelism responsibility. The Church much like a child told to clean his room each week runs in and stuffs the drawers with items and under the bed and in the closet and sweeps the dirt under the rug and runs out to play yelling to his mum that the room is clean. Week after week the church blazes through the liturgy and prayers but the proof of a well cleaned room is behind the closet doors under the bed and the rug. The Liturgy has bones set by God through His holy Apostles and the early church declared in scripture in the New Testament providing the skeleton but the flesh God has left to us. God has given His church absolute freedom in developing beauty and fitness of form to the Church through the liturgy and evangelism. These two equal but separate ministries work together to build the community of God's people and then the world looks at us and says "My! How they love one another" And "God added to them the number that were being saved." Clean your room Philip! The Church has a liturgical responsibility and an evangelism responsibility. The Church much like a child told to clean his room each week runs in and stuffs the drawers with items and under the bed and in the closet and sweeps the dirt under the rug and runs out to play yelling to his mum that the room is clean. Week after week the church blazes through the liturgy and prayers but the proof of a well cleaned room is behind the closet doors under the bed and the rug. The Liturgy has bones set by God through His holy Apostles and the early church declared in scripture in the New Testament providing the skeleton but the flesh God has left to us. God has given His church absolute freedom in developing beauty and fitness of form to the Church through the liturgy and evangelism. These two equal but separate ministries work together to build the community of God’s people and then the world looks at us and says “My! How they love one another” And “God added to them the number that were being saved.” Clean your room Philip!

]]> Comment on New Blog by pet play yard http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/5/#comment-174 pet play yard Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:51:38 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/5/#comment-174 <strong>Hall call a long time</strong> ... Gossage entertained media and friends in his living room while the family pet, a husky named Docky, enjoyed the Hall call a long time

… Gossage entertained media and friends in his living room while the family pet, a husky named Docky, enjoyed the

]]> Comment on The Paradox of Presence by jameswillisisthebest http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-90 jameswillisisthebest Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:36:56 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-90 This is my first post just saying HI This is my first post
just saying HI

]]> Comment on The Paradox of Presence by susan BP http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-75 susan BP Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:12:18 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-75 interiority is a challenge for us in our materialistic 'outside' culture, a crucial step to truly holistic living, but it is also crucial (cross shaped)to marry that with care for the marginalised and how can a new community like CF do that? Are we doing it at all yet? interiority is a challenge for us in our materialistic ‘outside’ culture, a crucial step to truly holistic living, but it is also crucial (cross shaped)to marry that with care for the marginalised and how can a new community like CF do that? Are we doing it at all yet?

]]> Comment on The Paradox of Presence by Nicky Matthews http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-41 Nicky Matthews Sun, 13 May 2007 09:13:01 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-41 For the past 2 years I have been journeying towards the contempletive life. I now find myself in an extreamly trying time and have found that the hallowing of each moment has enabled me to deal with things that in previous times I would just have walked away from. Jesus is more tangibly there in each moment. I am finding that it is because of the interiority of my walk with Christ that the outward walk of compassion is made possible. Without it, without Him, I have no hope of real compassion. For the past 2 years I have been journeying towards the contempletive life. I now find myself in an extreamly trying time and have found that the hallowing of each moment has enabled me to deal with things that in previous times I would just have walked away from. Jesus is more tangibly there in each moment. I am finding that it is because of the interiority of my walk with Christ that the outward walk of compassion is made possible. Without it, without Him, I have no hope of real compassion.

]]> Comment on The Paradox of Presence by susan bowden-pickstock http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-40 susan bowden-pickstock Fri, 11 May 2007 15:41:12 +0000 http://rodericksrambles.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/the-paradox-of-presence/#comment-40 I too feel called to and find it much easier to take time off to listen and feel and experience reality, but am simply at the edges yet. I can now practise the presence in Brother Lawrence fashion, enjoying a sacred moment of leaves in sunshine or children laughing; they are brief moments but inform my life far beyond the moment. it is a hard but rewarding task to undo the action-is-all ethic. I too feel called to and find it much easier to take time off to listen and feel and experience reality, but am simply at the edges yet. I can now practise the presence in Brother Lawrence fashion, enjoying a sacred moment of leaves in sunshine or children laughing; they are brief moments but inform my life far beyond the moment. it is a hard but rewarding task to undo the action-is-all ethic.

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