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Michael Woodward Profile picture
@shotwithspirit
May 26, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Day 3...#OfGodAndMe ...mainly Uni...1st summer at a US Camp, 2nd stopped by illness. A low point, but also growth in faith...a direction was there...& heading far away...

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18. It was the Year of Three Popes, and I finished up working In Edinburgh for those weeks, interwoven with the Festival programme. Cambridge came as a shock. It took a while to see beyond the preciousness of College & Chaplaincy life, but I found good friends & faith grew. Our 1st Year football team somehow ended up with 7 confessin
19. A brilliant young friar, BobOP, was our college chaplain, & turned out 2 be an OB of my school. His informal Eucharists in student rooms were pivotal 4 my growth. The Children’s Visiting Gp created by Assist.Chaplain was faith in action, visiting families with ‘special’ kids Bob Ombres OP, a great influence on many of us, in a very quThe CVG was a great regular commitment, with a weekly family
20. In retrospect, the biggest faith-developing moment was seeing a student after mass, sitting still & entirely lost in prayer. Kerry Leeper had more effect on me than any talk (tho’ Michael Ramsay was very good!) & inspired me to take prayer seriously, & seek to pray more.
21.Memorable retreats: one from college to Hemingford Grey; another with Ian Petit to Buckden Towers, where we nearly died of exposure. Then at Easter 1980 (2nd year) I went to Worth Abbey for the Triduum: this was completely new. I loved the psalms, & wanted to keep going there Remember Francis Pollen from yesterday? The church he create
22. ...so began a deepening fascination 4 contemplation & monastic prayer: the desert & those who pointed the way for us. Simone Weil was a new guide. In my 3rd year I found I was 2 doors down from Merton’s flat: his Contemplative Prayer read my mind & heart..I read @ Daily Mass Thomas Merton had lived 2 doors away in 1933/4. His convers
23. My roommate pal for 2 years switched from Classics 2 Theology, so I had a vicarious education in esp. StPaul & Hinduism.Standout experiences were the annual Dante Lectures; R.S.Thomas entrancing a theatre-full & Seamus Heaney doing an intimate reading, his wife in front row. Heaney’s first book, ‘Death of A Naturalist’, & Rimbau
24. I might've seen it coming, but 1 day, walking across Market Square...the word ‘monk’ went off in my head; Not me, surely? I’m nowhere near those guys...but it wouldn’t go away. Novice Master & Abbot were patient & wise: you’ve been shown a glimpse. Is this what u want & need?
25. The advice was to do something else first. India beckoned. My roommate’s brother’s friend had been to St Stephen’s College, Delhi teaching English & directing Shakespeare. Sounded great, but word came back that the Principal wouldn’t have a Catholic at any price...#OfGodAndMe
Thank you for getting this far...tomorrow, despite the rejection, we go to India & back, with snakes & lows & highs... #OfGodAndMe

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Today we celebrate the fruitful death of #SanRomero #StOscarRomero. The oppressors of the poor thought they had silenced him…that worked out about as well as killing #Jesus did for the perpetrators. 1/
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Today I had a long awaited opportunity to visit the grave of #SimoneWeil. Finding her writings, and her life, both extra-extraordinary, lit up my late teens. Her response to #GeorgeHerbert’s Love, & her living Easter at Solesmes struck loud chords…1/
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On the 33rd anniversary of the murder of the #UCA #Jesuits of #ElSalvador & their mother & daughter companions, I treasure the unforgettable @RomeroTrust pilgrimage that took us there, & the people we met. #SanRomero, pray for us all. 1/
Our visit to #UCA in 2017 was only our 2nd & 3rd days in #SanSalvador, staying @ the beautifully located #CentroLoyola. We met wonderful people everywhere who welcomed us with open arms. They asked that we might share their story with others when we returned home. @RomeroTrust 2/
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Day 2, #OfGodAndMe Moving towards adult life...
we continue with departure from London to Hampshire, 1970...

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9.4th sister stayed with neighbours to finish her O Levels, so I was an only child, in a new town. A 17 mile Sponsored Walk for Oxfam showed me the geography, but I never quite took to Bournemouth. The stammer made reading round the class torture at times, altho’ I loved to read.
10.Another summer camp in Wales. But now news came that my Dad had suddenly died. For sound seeming reasons I was left at camp & not brought home 4 his funeral; but it was not a good call, & wouldn’t happen now. When I came home I felt I couldn’t talk of him as it upset my Mum. From 'Somewhere Else', one of the poems in Thirst (2001, Thr
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1. I walked the day we moved from leafy Strawberry Hill to Woodford in 1960, for my dad’s work. I was youngest by 5 years. With 4 sisters, I was destined 2b named Charlotte, & everyone was shocked. Fortunately I was baptised Michael Anthony, sharing Padua’s feastday. #OfGodAndMe
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