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Jackie Parkes MJ

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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Stay at Home Mom
Location	Birmingham, United Kingdom
Introduction	I suffer from bi-polar affective disorder (manic-depression). I take many medications which put on weight but am extremely well at present & for that I give thanks to God.I have 10 children. Jennifer is 22 & in her 4th year studying Medicine at Hull/York. Katy is 19 & in her second year of her English degree at Hull, Claire is 17 at College with a view to joining the Police force like her father, Rose is excellent in every single subject & is 16, Mary is 15 & the best sports woman in the school, particularly talented in football, Elizabeth is 14, Patricia 12 & Jacinta 8, & all 3 are doing well. The boys are 9 (Andrew) & 11 (Alexander) & serve every week at the Oratory Church.I have a Degree in Divinity from Liverpool University 1984 (Christ & Notre Dame) & was Head of RE for a number of years.I am a member of Miles Jesu an ecclesial family of consecrated life.
Interests	Catholicism, practicing my faith by daily Mass & prayer. Exercise..cycling, the gym, swimming. My large family & friends.
Favorite Movies	The Hunt for Red October. Brideshead Revisited. The Sound of Music. Cheaper by the Dozen (original version). A Beautiful Mind. The Bridges of Madison County. A Passage to India.
Favorite Music	Robbie Williams. Dire Straits. U2. Dido. Lily Allen. The Eagles. David Bowie. Glen Campbell.
Favorite Books	Favourite Books * Religious: ' The Story of a Soul ' St Therese of Lisieux ' The Spiritual Combat ' by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli ' The Soul Sanctified ' Catholic Wisdom on the Way of Salvation..selected meditations. ' Love & Responsibility ' Karol Wojtyla ' Fire Within * St Teresa of Avila * St John of the Cross * and the Gospel- on Prayer by Thomas Dubay * S.M. ' Fragments of My Life ' Catherine Doherty ' The Way of Divine Love ' Sister Josepha Menedes ' Life is Worth Living ' ' Treasure in Clay ' ' The Divine Romance ' all by Fulton Sheen ' Christ is Passing By ' ' The Way ' both by Escriva ' Come Rack Come Rope.' Robert Hugh Benson ' Journal of a Soul ' ' Letters to his family ' both by Blessed John XX111 ' Something beautiful for God ' * by Malcolm Muggeridge 'The Christian Family Coping' by Marion Michael Walsh Novels: Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Bronte * Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh * 'Child of My Love' by Sue Ryder ' The Hidden world 'by Sue Ryder's husband Leonard Cheshire 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks Medical: 'An Unquiet Mind' by Kay Redfield Jamison 'Manic-depressive illness' as above. 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath 'A Brilliant Madness' by Patty Duke ' You Don't have to be famous to be Manic Depressive ' Jeremy Thomas & Dr Tony Hughes ' Depression & How to Survive it.' Spike Milligan & Dr Anthony Clare 'Mental health through will training'.Dr Abraham Low. ' The Power of positive Thinking ' * Norman Vincent Peale. All literature written by or about Cardinal John Henry Newman Miles Jesu: All Continuity literature ( monthly in the Journal) The Faith Family Handbook & Prayerbook St Anthony Mary Claret Paul Murphy..A Man to Move Hearts * by Stephen Ryan MJ & Joanna Bogle ( haven't read yet..) Reading for Lent ' Abandonment to Divine Providence ' Fr De Caussade SJ St Padre Pio of Pietrelcina * ' Meditations ' and 'The Way of the Cross.'