Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
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..…
“That for which we find words in something already dead in our hearts. There always is a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.” – Nietzsche, The Twilight of…
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Here is a piece by Sylvia Thompson on a recent First Fortnight panel discussion I took part in on apps in mental health. Dr…
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…
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…
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…
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the birds cry…
Originally posted on DANIEL DeFOREST LONDON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7sbsX8eYg There was a discussion in a First Grade religion class focused on St. Francis of Assisi. After school, a First Grader came home…
Séamus Sweeney 