An Interesting Day
on 10-Dec-09 10:15
Is the real economy in the basement? We spent a day in conference room No 5 in the lower ground floor of Bewley’s Hotel courtesy of the Southside Partnership. We were learning how to write a constitution because you simply...
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Brat Bride
on 10-Dec-09 10:10
Brat Bríde: An old Clare Custom On the night of 31 January, which is the eve of St Brigid’s feast, my grandmother never forgot this ritual. Each year having bought a length of new brown ribbon in Ennis, on this...
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Happy Christmas
on 10-Dec-09 10:07
Sometimes a reader will find a meaning in a text other than the one intended by the writer. So when Jean gave me this Christmas card, I wondered if the artist is giving an alternative message. The African Madonna’s hand...
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Palm Sunday 2009
on 10-Dec-09 10:06
In the Catholic Church, catechumens (or ‘the elect’ as they are called) are baptised on Holy Saturday, during the Easter vigil ceremony. And in the diocese of Northampton, they have baptism by immersion, for which they hire a birthing pool!...
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Words, words…
on 10-Dec-09 10:05
I complained on Christmas night about the sermon -yet another one declaring that the recession is likely to restore us to better values. ‘So what should the priest have spoken about?’ Catherine asked. ’Something directly about the Incarnation’, I suggested....
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