Arcabas RIP
The French sacred painter Arcabas (real name Jean-Marie Pirot has died : Jean-Marie Pirot-Arcabas was born in 1926 in Lorraine (France). Graduated from the Fine Arts School (Ecole Nationale Supérieure…
Category: reflection
St Helen’s Day – stained glass and true cross relic from Church of St Gilles, Mallièvre
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…
“Be Still”, Agnes Hunt RHSM – poem in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford.
I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…
All-Ireland Pollinator Plan: call on Faith Communities to help pollinators
As this page points out, faith communities tend to own and manage considerable land (also quite spread out round the country). It is good to see this kind of outreach…
“Green Fire – Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic For Our Time”
Aldo Leopold died of a heart attack while battling a fire on a neighbour’s property on April 21, 1948. He is one of those literary figures better known and much…
Doon Mass Rock, Doon, Co. Donegal.
While the Holy Well and the rock where the O’Donnell chieftain was inaugurated are better known, the site near Termon in Donegal features a well–preserved Mass Rock. These photos capture it from…
A resting blessing from the Carmina Gadelica
From Alexander Carmichael’s collection of the Scottish oral tradition Carmina Gadelica , a resting blessing AN ainm an Tighearn Iosa, Agus Spiorad ìocshlain aigh, An ainm Athar Israil, Sinim sios…
Séamus Sweeney 