Joe Kane Cross by Candlelight
I previously posted on the ceramic work of Joe and Anne Kane from their studio at Moyra Rectory near Falcarragh in Donegal. The photos illustrating that post weren’t great and…
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Stained Glass from St Molleran’s Church, Carrick-on-Suir
With its narrow streets, broad river spanned by and skyline dominated by spires and a town clock, there is a medieval feel to Carrick-On-Suir. St Molleran’s is built on the…
“the vulgar and rather infantile things you really do want” – Adam deVille on prayer and psychoanalysis
I have linked before to Eastern Christian Books, the blog of Adam de Ville. One of deVille’s recurrent themes is the unnecessary and unhelpful perceived antagonism between psychoanalysis and religion..…
“The pilgrimage is not all plain sailing, not all peak experience” – Peter Reason on the messy human reality of pilgrimage
One of the charms of Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” is his human honesty at the gap between the lofty ambition of pilgrimage and actual experience. At the very outset of…
Peter Reason on pilgrimage, ecology and in-between space.
From “In Search of Grace”: “In modern times, the idea of pilgrimage falls within so many cultural and spiritual traditions that it holds no single meaning. However, it usually entails…
A cobbler in stained glass: St Crispin from St Peter and Paul’s, Clonmel, courtesy of Munster Shoes Limited
It’s been a while since I have posted any Tipperary Stained Glass posts. I suppose the best explanation is that the chance hasn’t presented itself – this is very much…
Yet you came, and were not turned away: Epiphany / Theophany
It is Epiphany, or Theophany in Eastern Christendom. Water features strongly in this liturgy; it is the occasion of the Great Blessing Of The Waters. This video, seven years old,…
The many uses of St Columba
From Richard Sharpe’s introduction to his translation of of Adomnan’s Life of St Columba, there are some fascinating passages on how Columba came to be used as a sort of…
Séamus Sweeney 