Global Trifold 2024 Spiritual Accompaniment User Guide

: August 20, 2024
: GLOBAL

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Global Trifold 2024 Spiritual Accompaniment
Product Information
Product Usage Instructions
OVERVIEW
FAQS
Documents / Resources

Global Trifold 2024 Spiritual Accompaniment

Product Information

Specifications

Product Name: A&B Spirituality Network
Registered Charity No.: 252878
Service Offered: Spiritual Accompaniment
Region: Diocese of Arundel & Brighton (Sussex, Surrey)

Product Usage Instructions

Finding a Spiritual Guide

The A&B Spirituality Network provides a matching service to connect individuals seeking spiritual accompaniment with trained and experienced spiritual directors in the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton.

Contacts

If you live in Sussex, contact Mary O’Grady at marytogrady@tiscali.co.uk
If you live in Surrey, contact Teresa Brooks at topcat52@btinternet.com
To join the network as a spiritual director, contact Membership Secretary Caroline King at caromking8@gmail.com
For priest advisement, contact Fr Raglan Hay-Will at raglan.haywill@abdiocese.org.uk

About Spiritual Accompaniment

Spiritual accompaniment offers a safe space to explore and reflect on your relationship with God. It involves sharing your faith journey with a trusted guide and seeking guidance in recognizing God’s presence in your life.

Benefits of Spiritual Guidance

Building a relationship of trust with a spiritual companion can help you become more open to God’s work in your life through honest conversations and guidance from the Holy Spirit.

FAQ

Where did the idea of spiritual accompaniment come from?

The tradition of spiritual guidance dates back to Jesus’ interactions with individuals in the gospels, emphasizing the importance of companionship on one’s faith journey.

How can spiritual guidance help me?

Spiritual guidance can provide a supportive environment for self-reflection, deepening your relationship with God, and becoming more receptive to the Holy Spirit’s influence.

OVERVIEW

In our world, ordained ministers and other pastoral workers can present the fragrance of Christ’s closeness and his gaze.
The Church will have to initiate everyone – priests, religious, and laity –into this “art of accompaniment” which teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other (cf. Ex3:5).
Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium

FAQS

How can I find a spiritual guide?

The Diocese of Arundel & Brighton has a well-established Network with many trained and experienced spiritual directors. These individuals are available to accompany people on their faith journey.
The Network offers a matching service, linking people seeking accompaniment with a guide who lives within a reasonable travel distance from their home. Enquirers are not matched with a guide from their parish.

If you would like to find a spiritual guide and live in Sussex then please contact Mary O’Grady:

E: marytogrady@tiscali.co.uk
If you live in Surrey please contact Teresa Brooks: E: topcat52@btinternet.com
The Network also offers ongoing support to those guides working in the ministry of spiritual accompaniment, and meetings are held every three months.
If you are a trained spiritual director and are interested in becoming a member of our Network, then please contact our Membership Secretary Caroline King.
E: caromking8@gmail.com
Priest Adviser: Fr Raglan Hay-Will
E: raglan.haywill@abdiocese.org.uk

Spiritual Accompaniment offers an opportunity to do this, but what is it?

Each of us meets God in our everyday experiences, sometimes we just need a little help and guidance to recognize it. We can learn to listen to God and discern the Holy Spirit’s call and direction.
A spiritual guide can offer something that is in short supply in our busy world today: time, caring attention, acceptance and encouragement, and a great ability to listen.
Over a while, we share our faith journey with this trusted person in confidence. We bring the things that mean the most to us, including our hopes, dreams, and struggles.
Spiritual accompaniment offers us a safe space in which to explore and reflect on our relationship with God, whatever that is like.
In time this can lead to a growing awareness of God’s presence in all aspects of our lives and a greater appreciation of his love for us.

where did the idea of spiritual accompaniment come from?

The gospels record times when Jesus entered into conversations with people, encouraging their belief. From then on, spiritual guidance has been part of the tradition of the Church, understanding that none of us makes our faith journey entirely on our own.
The real agent of our spiritual progress is the Holy Spirit. However, one-to-one accompaniment by a confidential guide can help us see and appreciate the way the Spirit is already acting in our lives.
In today’s changing world, an increasing number of people are rediscovering how helpful it can be to have someone walk alongside them on their journey of faith.

Who is spiritual guidance for?

It is for anyone interested in drawing closer to God. God meets us where we are, not where we think we should be.
The fact that many of us feel unworthy of God’s love can become a stumbling block to our openness to accepting and embracing his love personally.

How can spiritual guidance help me?

As a relationship of trust with a spiritual companion builds over a while, we can speak honestly about ourselves and our faith journey. Through the Holy Spirit’s gentle work in us, we can become more open to God.
Through a more developed self-knowledge, we can grow in our sensitivity to God’s grace and movement in our daily lives.
A guide can sometimes bring a different perspective to personal issues, both past and present, and this can be very helpful, especially if we feel we are going around in circles.
No words can express the tenderness which our Lord devotes to our spiritual growth”.
Julian of Norwich
www.abdiocese.org.uk

Documents / Resources

| Global Trifold 2024 Spiritual Accompaniment [pdf] User Guide
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