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From ” “Dare to Journey–with Henri Nouwen (Designed for Influence)” by Charles Ringma” We need to resist making unhelpful distinctions where we play off one thing against another. Prayer, for…
I have been reading the beautifully produced book Aneas – Saíocht ó thraidisiún Gaelach na Mumhan. This book features various proverbs, sayings and idioms of Munster Irish, with a text…
LEARNING HOW TO SEE AGAIN By Josef Pieper (translated by Lothar Krauk) from Only The Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation Man’s ability to see is in decline. Those who…
from “Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness” by Robert Sardello: Everything, it seems, has its own quality of silence. It is a unified but many-qualitied phenomenon. The Silence of high, rocky…
I particularly love the lines “your way was not to exalt nor avoid the Adamic legacy, you simply made it irrelevant” – which neatly summarises Brother Lawrence’s way of deceptive…
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…
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.…
Adam DeVille has a fascinating pair of posts (one here, one here) on Maggie Ross‘ Silence: A User’s Guide. Both posts are worth reading in full (and I must now…
Séamus Sweeney 