Nunraw New Abbey history of construction 126 from an Album

Nunraw - An Album

Archiving the 'pictures' awakens vivid awareness the sense of daunting in the task of the so called  DIY of the New Abbey. The 'Do It Yourselves' monastery lived the joy of monks and countless helpers in kind and work and, support and enthusiasm.
Monastic prayer primed the spark for every next activity.
The living spirit filled our hearts in the amazing grace of collaborations in building a 'house of God'..
And here, the old story is proof that each 'gem' of picture is worth a million words! 

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             An Album compiled of photographs of moving scenes of the course of building a new monastery at Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw, Scotland, 1946-2012.        

COMMENT: Nunraw - An Album

COMMENT: Nunraw- An AlbumHi, William,

Thank you for appreciative comment.

This is patient of archiving the history.

Opening up the 'pictures' an awareness of the daunting task comes to heart the amazing grace of collaborations in building a monastery.

The living spirit of monks and countless helpers, support and enthusiasm, spread beyond Nunraw monastery.

At the moment, every picture is a gem that needs a frame.

Others added here.

.... yours

Donald

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From: William W. ...

To: Donald. ...
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 9:26
Subject: Re Nunraw Album

Dear Father Donald,

 

Thank you so much for copying your work on the album to me - what wonderful memories these photos will bring back to you. For me, it is a delight to be able to 'picture' those early days, enriching my appreciation of the life of the Brethren. I think the photo that captures the 'scene' for me is 38m hoeing turnips. Years I should have loved to have witnessed!

 

.. . .  in Our Lord, 

William.  

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Nunraw - An Album

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From: Anne Marie ...
To: Donald Nunraw ....
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012, 23:11
Subject: Re: Nunraw - An Album

The photographs are great.  Well done.  They all look very happy.

Sent from my iPad

Anne Marie

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From: Donald ....
To: Anne Marie ....
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012, 17:57
Subject: An Album

end to begin  Abbey Construction history.

Now working back for the end of the photos to 'Paint-in' labels - the first few.

 Attached via Blog.

Donald

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMENT Night Office Second Reading

Second Reading

From the Jerusalem Catecheses
(Cat 22, Mystagogica 4, 1. 3-6: PG 33, 1098-1106)
I loved the Second Reading.
But it was refered to as the Jerusalem Catecheses.
Now I find it more correctly sourced in St. Cyril of Jerusalem at this Website Link:
 www.therealpresence.org  

The Early Christians Believed in the Real Presence

"So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter." (2 Thes. 2:15) "And what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." (2 Tim. 2:2)

Icon of an Early Christian Father

The Bible	The Didache	St. Clement of Rome
St. Ignatius of Antioch	St. Justin Martyr	St. Irenaeus of Lyons
St. Clement of Alexandria	St. Cyprian of Carthage	Aphraates the Persian Sage
Serapion	St. Ephraim	St. Athanasius
St. Cyril of Jerusalem	St. Hilary of Poiters	St. Basil the Great
St. Epiphanius of Salamis	St. Gregory of Nazianz	St. Gregory of Nyssa
St. John Chrysostom	St. Ambrose of Milan	Egeria
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens	St. Jerome	Apostolic Constitutions
St. Cyril of Alexandria	St. Augustine	Marcarius the Magnesian
St. Leo I	St. Caesar of Arles	St. Fulgene of Ruspe

   ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM  (Alt)

St. Cyril served as Bishop of Jerusalem in the years 348-378 A.D.,

"`I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread, etc. [1 Cor. 11:23]'. This teaching of the Blessed Paul is alone sufficient to give you a full assurance concerning those Divine Mysteries, which when ye are vouchsafed, ye are of (the same body) [Eph 3:6] and blood with Christ. For he has just distinctly said, (That our Lord Jesus Christ the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks He brake it, and said, Take, eat, this is My Body: and having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, Take, drink, this is My Blood.) [1 Cor. 2:23-25] Since then He Himself has declared and said of the Bread, (This is My Body), who shall dare to doubt any longer? And since He has affirmed and said, (This is My Blood), who shall ever hesitate, saying, that it is not His blood?