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Between Comber and Newtownards in County Down lies WWT (Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) reserve Castle Espie. This is a wonderful site, and I would say the most impressive family attraction…
Today is St Cuthbert’s Day. I must admit he wasn’t a saint I’d heard of before coming across Chris Watson’s work. Watson has had an interesting and highly varied career. Formerly…
From Nouwen’s The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers Here we reach the point where ministry and spirituality touch each other. It is compassion.…
Kilcash Wood is a Coillte site in the village on the lower slopes of Slievenamon. I guess climbing Slievenamon takes the focus away from here as a walking destination. It…
The exterior of the Church of St Theresa in Sion Mills is most notable for a frieze of the Last Supper by Oisin Kelly: Detail: Inside there are some interesting stained…
Via Le Dauphiné, a report with two photos of the funeral of Arcabas, the recently deceased French painter of the Sacred.: Mardi matin, l’église de Saint-Hugues-de-Chartreuse a accueilli les obsèques de Jean-Marie…
On the website Thinking Faith, Emma Holland has an interesting piece on the resurgence of popularlity of pilgrimage. I’ve blogged a lot here about Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” a book which is…
It is St Helen’s day, commemorating the mother of the Emperor Constantine whose mission to recover the cross on which Christ was killed inspired Evelyn Waugh’s Helena. Recent I visited…
Séamus Sweeney 