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Posted on July 8, 2018July 8, 2018

Stained Glass from St Patrick’s Church, Crossmaglen (Creggan Upper Parish), Co. Armagh

This is the parish church of Upper Creggan parish in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh. St Patrick’s Church has a photo gallery on Flickr and an informative website. In 2015 this fine…

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Posted on July 8, 2018

Stained Glass from St Mary’s Oratory, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone

St Mary’s Oratory is on the main street of Newtownstewart. It has an interesting history and context which you can read about on the Ardstraw East parish website. I entered…

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Posted on June 24, 2018June 24, 2018

“Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven: The Phenomenon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond” – a paper by Michael McCaughran links the Kilnaruane Pillar, Françoise Henry and Seamus Heaney

Via Medievalists.Net, I came across this paper from 1998 this paper (on page 175 of the PDF): Abstract : This paper explores the phenomenon of ships voyaging in the sky.…

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Posted on June 19, 2018

“Sibhse ghabhas tríomsa, cuiridh uaibh gach dóchas” – Dante’s Divine Comedy as Gaeilge

Recently I acquired a copy of Padráig de Brún’s translation into Irish of “Inferno”. de Brún translated the whole Divine Comedy. The fly jacket of my copy states that “it…

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Posted on June 19, 2018June 19, 2018

Henri Nouwen on the powerlessness of God

From “Bread For the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, Henri Nouwen: In and through Jesus we come to know God as a powerless God, who becomes dependent on…

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Posted on June 17, 2018

St Carthage and the miracle of the ever flowing barrel of beer

“Bóthar na Naomh and the Black Lane: Roadway of the Saints” is a booklet produced by the Whitechurch Historial Group. It describes itself as a “map and compendium” completed “to…

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Posted on June 17, 2018June 17, 2018

from “Small, Silent, Still” – Fr Paul D Scalia

Full piece here. An interesting interview with Fr Scalia – son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia – here  We require that God be as we want Him: big,…

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Posted on June 9, 2018June 9, 2018

“I Heard My Father Call My Name”

Originally posted on Creo en Dios!:
Today’s Gospel is the familiar passage in Luke that we often refer to as Finding Jesus in the Temple.  Twelve-year old Jesus and his…

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