Living out our faith as a family

Part of our calling is to live out our Christian faith in the Catholic world. So when our boys said that they wanted to be baptised it seemed only logical that they be baptised within the faith tradition where we currently live and worship.

So we are a family united at the most important level by our faith in Christ and by Christian baptism, but we are also divided at a secondary level by confession.

In some ways our family has come to symbolise what our calling is, to show that love and co-operation are possible across confessional divides.

So here are our boys joyfully receiving baptism and taking a step forward in their relationship with Christ and to his church.

No greater sight for a Christian parent than to see your children choosing to go on with God.

The Lord bless you boys!

Encouraging

One of the things we do is to try to encourage our French Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ.

Here Sharon is visiting a Christmas nativity scene created in one of the local churches.

A lot of work is put into these creations and this particular church has some exquisite antique figurines which make a wonderful display.

It is often in these practical acts that French Catholics are most comfortable expressing the reality and depth of their faith.

Exhorting

Another way in which we have been able to help is in leading prayer groups and Bible studies.

This group was a response to our Archbishop calling on French Catholics to read the Bible more. He recommended starting with Mark's gospel.

We encouraged our friends to respond to this call and they agreed. So over several months we met together regularly to read and reflect on a chapter of Mark's gospel.

The resulting notes of our studies are available for download from the French side of this website.

Celebrating

We have also been able to serve and support our parish through Sharon's musical abilities.

She organises and leads the choir practices for our large parish (46 villages!).

She is also often called upon to play the piano or to lead the worship on Sundays.