Tell me a story
on 14-Dec-09 10:32
Diarmuid at five years couldn’t get enough of listening to stories. And this does not change with age. Kieran Scott says that, “we live in a story-shaped world”. (Furrow, Jan 2007). Indeed John Shea, that master of God stories, says...
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A family reunion
on 14-Dec-09 10:30
It is not only in Africa that ancestors are important; we all owe them. Realising this, my mothers’ people, the Connellan tribe, had another family reunion in Clare this August. Relatives converged from England, Canada, America, Switzerland and New Zealand,...
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Late Visitors
on 14-Dec-09 10:29
Around 9 o’clock last evening three blackbirds visited the small garden at Mountain View Park. They were just on a pre-bedtime walkabout. It was a cool damp June twilight, not a time for singing, just down time. Only one had...
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Mary Potter today
on 14-Dec-09 10:27
The Mary Potter tram traverses the streets of Nottingham today, making it’s way, as she did in 1877, out to Hyson Green, the cradle of the Little Company of Mary. In the heritage house lovingly tended by Sr Lynn, we...
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Healing
on 14-Dec-09 10:25
A woman came to a wise rabbi for help. She was depressed and in grief after a bereavement and poured out her sorrow to the holy man. The rabbi only commented mildly that it was very cold. He suggested therefore,...
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