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Words that sing

By Default admin account on 14-Dec-09 02:23

For the Rev Professor June Boyce-Tillman music and dance are like breathing. She is Director of Foundation Music at the University of Winchester in association with the city’s famous Cathedral. Thus she probably thought that she was stating the obvious: “It is music and dance primarily that lead us to experience God and transcendence,...

Resurrection

By Default admin account on 14-Dec-09 02:18

Phil and I went to New Zealand, a taxing journey undertaken because of our other sister Mona, who lives there. Too far away for our fourth sister Maureen, to travel with us. But the endeavour seems to have dissolved some of the distance, for all four of us.

Disturb us

By Default admin account on 14-Dec-09 02:12

Fr Tony Gittins CSSp came to Dublin for a conference entitled: Disturbed by the Spirit –Called to be Sent: Religious Life, Discipleship and a Vocations Culture. Everyone of course, is called at baptism, to be a disciple (friend and proclaimer) of Christ. And most at the conference, were well and truly disturbed again, by the challenge -again. As he was leaving, Tony referred us to the prayer of an unlikely guide, Sir Francis Drake. ‘You can Google it’, he said; so I did. And obviously many others are doing the same:

Are we there yet?

By Default admin account on 14-Dec-09 02:05

Under the curtains, clear white-yellow light Has hit my bedroom floor, at dead of night. Frost. Is it possible there was frost in Bethlehem? Light there was, we’re told; I have to go and look, reluctant in the cold...

A trusting self

By Default admin account on 14-Dec-09 02:02

The BBC can still put out the best programmes as they proved again with their commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton (Sunday, 2 November 2008). At twenty-six, Merton was a restless, brilliant journalist, a heavy drinker and a womanizer and...

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