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watched Chocolat on Easter Saturday...enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. We had a clip from it last night at the Lab where the theme was "jesus the man". The priest in the story right at the end of the film says the following from the pulpit...."I'm not sure today what the theme of my homily should be. Do I want to speak of the miracle of our Lord's divine transformation? Not really no. I don't want to talk about his divinity. I'd rather talk about his humanity. You know, I mean, how he lived his life here on earth, his kindness, his tolerance. Listen - here's what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include."

Hope that the lab becomes known for embracing, creating and including.

Been on holiday last week so its been a very long break from the blog. But thank you for the support and prayers for the Lab at Heroes Bar on Easter Day. It went really well. Last night's Lab was pretty special too with what I have termed 'an agape moment' - we ripped up some bread and passed it to each other remembering that sometimes we try desperately to be anything but human. We think we have to be God himself. Sometimes we don't cut ourselves or others enough slack. In that simple but powerful moment we remembered our brokenness - that we are just frail humans but also that Jesus entered our neighbourhood and knows our pain and will continue to walk with us.