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lent 2009

sense making faith

Week 4: Journey into Touching

Reach out on your Lenten journey through the sense of touch.

Study Guide

Week 4 - Journey into Touching (PDF)

Week 4 - Journey into Touching for Mothering Sunday (PDF)

Welsh translation (PDF):
Taith i mewn i Gyffwrdd
Taith i mewn i Gyffwrdd - Sul y Mamau

For help with downloads look at this guide.

Blog

Follow our guest contributors as they make their Lenten journey using the BBC radio programmes and Sense Making Faith resources. This week, Shane Tucker, Youth Ministry Development Worker for the Church of Ireland youth department, reflects on this stage of the Lenten journey.

Sense Making Faith blog 

Extra

Have a look at this ‘free hugs' video. What thoughts come to mind when you watch it?

For Mothering Sunday

Have a look at the touch images in this video of icons:

Continuing the journey 

• The course is based on a beautifully illustrated CTBI publication Sense Making Faith, written by Anne Richards. There is more material to explore in the book in the ‘Journey into Touching' chapter and you can explore further journeys and ideas in the Explore section of www.spiritualjourneys.org.uk in the section called 'Touch'. This resource is also paired with another for Mothering Sunday, which you might also want to have a look at.
• Nervous system Touch fact file from BBC Science and Nature
• A Time to Heal: A contribution to the ministry of healing, Church House Publishing, 2000.
• The Daily Service on Radio 4 from March 23rd to 26th offers more readings and reflections for you to listen to about people whose spiritual journeys were changed by the experience of touch.

For Mothering Sunday

• For writing on God as Mother, look at: Julian of Norwich, The Revelations of Divine Love, Penguin Classics, new edition 1998
• Rosemary Kay, Saul, St Martin's Press, 2000.