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| FROM THE HEART |
- The first approach to WCCM by a Portuguese fellow was accomplished by
Teresa Rocha, an ex Benedictine nun, who visited Ealing Abbey 1980 and
stayed for a week.
- She returned to the U.K. in August 1992 to attend a meeting of the
Charismatic Renewal Movement in Walsingham and gathered afterwards
with some friends in London in a hotel near Kensington. It was Sunday
and they were discussing which Mass to attend. Someone suggested
Brompton Oratory and its Mass in Latin, Teresa strongly counter-
proposed the Christian Meditation Centre nearby. Taking the opportunity
to briefly explain what Christian Meditation was about, she convinced the
group.
One of them related to me that they were warmly welcomed , left their
shoes at the entry and attended mass celebrated by Father Laurence
Freeman. Then, after receiving Holy Communion, there was a time for
meditation. They were so pleased with the quietness and the beauty of
the celebration and the atmosphere that as soon as they arrived in Lisbon
they have started a weekly prayer group at Teresa’s. They were only
three in the beginning but soon others joined the group and today they are
ten people. They have been the embryo of the Portuguese community
which now amounts to 9 groups (around 68 people) gathering once a
week.
Maria Cristina Guedes de Sousa
Lisbon, Portugal
February 2007