“salvation would be easier for the clever and leisured than for the dull and busy”
From “Confessions of a Convert”. R H Benson: It had been put to me by my Superior that I was surely incurring the guilt of pride in venturing to set…
Category: christianity
First Conversation, “The Practice of the Presence of God”, Brother Lawrence
More on this book. The first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the third of August, in the year 1666. He told me God had done him a great…
Killamery High Cross
Some photos from Killamery, Co Kilkenny, of the well known high cross. Of the same family – the Ossory Group – as Ahenny High Crosses and Kilkieran, this features the distinctive tented…
From “Quest for God in the Work of Borges”, Annette U. Flynn
I recently started this book by UCD Lecturer Annette U Flynn. Her biography is worth noting and outlines a winding if not forking path into academia: I grew up…
“This Woful Elegy”: the grave of William Costello, “of the parish of Grangemocler”
Visiting the Killamery High cross, I spied just to the south of the cross a striking gravestone, that of “William Costello, of the parish of Grangemocler”. With a little bit…
Happy #WorldLabyrinthDay 2018
Happy World Labyrinth Day! : Celebrate the 10th Annual World Labyrinth Day on May 5, 2018 and join over 5,000 people taking steps for peace, ‘Walking as One at 1’ in the afternoon.…
“We tire of distraction or concentration. we sleep and are glad to sleep”
From “Choruses from the Rock”, T S Eliot: In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and…
Séamus Sweeney 