Introducing The Lantern Group

We're living in turbulent times — you'll have noticed!

For encouragement in holding our light steady day by day, I've put in place a new group meeting at our home.

It's called The Lantern Group, and I introduced it at our church on the last day of 2023. I had a sign-up sheet at the back of church, and afterwards someone who'd signed up asked if I could share what I'd said for people who weren't in church that day — our Mass is always uploaded to YouTube, but something broke on that particular day, so it couldn't be posted in the usual way.

So I made a video of what I'd said, and uploaded it to my own channel, and emailed it to those who were interested but needed to info.

A couple of people who don't live near me at all, but who follow my YouTube channel, spotted the video, and got in touch to say they wanted to be part of The Lantern Group too! 

This led me to conclude it would be helpful to make an electronic component of our meetings. Nothing kills a discussion like recording it (!) so we won't do that, but every time we meet — on the first Monday of each month — if I am leading, there will be a discussion topic with some input to centre our conversation, and a memory-jogger summary sheet. I will be leading every other month, alternating with my daughter Grace (whom you may know as Buzzfloyd from her comments on this blog). 

We (Grace and I) firmly believe that group singing is one of the most soul-strengthening things you can do, so each time we meet we will also include a back of songs.

So, for those of you who would like to be part of the group but live far away, when it's my turn to lead I will post (here on Kindred of the Quiet Way) a video of a Thinkabout from me of whatever was our discussion focus that evening, a memory-jogger summary sheet for you to print off, and one of the songs we had (a link to a YouTube video of that song, but probably not us singing it unless we happen to have one recorded).

Our first meeting is on this coming Monday (it seemed appropriate to begin around Candlemas), so I'll post accordingly on Tuesday. But for now, here's the introductory video explaining all about The Lantern Group and what it's intending to achieve.

Blessed be.