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Posted on April 5, 2020August 15, 2019

Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest

Here are excerpts from Blog Of A City Priest’s reflection on Palm Sunday from last year: Long Gospel, huh?  Why does the Church have to have all this lengthy pageantry?…

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Posted on August 25, 2019August 25, 2019

Meáchan Rudaí/ The Shape of Things a poem by Liam Ó Muirthile set to music by The Gloaming

The Gloaming are something of a traditional Irish music supergroup, infused with something of a post-classical/Indie sensibility. They comprise  fiddler Martin Hayes, guitarist Dennis Cahill, veteran Sean Nos singer,  Iarla Ó Lionáird, fiddler Caoimhín…

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Posted on June 8, 2019

Review of “Curlew Moon”, Mary Colwell

Back in the days leading up to World Curlew Day  I posted various curlew-related posts. One way on “Curlew Moon” by Mary Colwell.  Rather shamefacedly, I must admit I had not read…

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Posted on April 19, 2019February 14, 2019

Music for #GoodFriday: “Les Sept dernières paroles du Christ en Croix”, César Franck

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Posted on April 14, 2019

A poem for Palm Sunday – “The Donkey”, G K Chesterton

I find Chesterton a somewhat mixed bag , and that applies to his poetry also, but this has always moved me deeply, and is all the more effective for concealing…

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Posted on April 4, 2019April 17, 2019

Glen Falls – a poem by Ciaran MacCormaic, Glencomeragh, Co. Waterford

A while back I posted “Be Still”, a poem by Agnes Hunt RHSM which is displayed on a board at the Holy Family Retreat Centre in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford. There…

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Posted on March 25, 2019January 12, 2019

J G Ballard on viewing Crivelli’s Annunciation

Via Bibliokept: I am sure that a large part of the enduring mystery of the Renaissance masterpieces in the National Gallery was due to the absence of the explanatory matter that…

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Posted on March 10, 2019March 10, 2019

Malcolm Guite with pilgrimage poems for the first week of Lent

  At his blog the poet Malcolm Guite features a suite of poems on pilgrimage, one for each day of the first week of Lent: In this first week in…

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