Work and Spirituality
Greg Heylin
Soul Journeys with the Dying
Paddy Pender
St. Michan's Church & Parish
Paddy Pender
We believe that, throughout history, God spoke through many prophets and, most fully in the person of Jesus. We believe that God speaks to us in all our life experience, revealing who God is and who we are. We recognise that, at the heart of each person there is a longing, which is a reflection of God's own passionate longing to be with us. Our longing moves us to make the search for God, following Jesus and living in the Spirit, the heart of our personal collective history.
Anamchairde therefore, undertake a peer ministry of companioning, based on Ignatian Spirituality. We commit ourselves to facilitating others in attending to God's call in the experience of their daily lives, and in their deepest longing.
We recognise the dignity and equality of all God's people, and we seek to make the service of companioning available to all. Our commitment to this ministry is our way of contributing to the realisation of God's dream for the wholeness of all creation.
We work in communion to foster this ministry by:
Developing in ourselves a contemplative stance in life
Providing training and supervision for those who are, or wish to be, engaged in this ministry
Encouraging, supporting and challenging one and other in our ministry
Seeking supervision
Contributing to the establishment and maintenance of structures within Anamcharadas which will at all times serve the ministry
Choosing to work in collaboration with other groups and individuals, out of a recognition that Anamcharadas is part of a wider movement in the church.
Undertaking to develop our own knowledge and skills
In its structures and relationships, Anamcharadas seeks to model church as People of God, called to live justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with our God
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