From “Forgiveness”, by Herbert McCabe
From the sermon Forgiveness by Herbert McCabe: It is very odd that people should think that when we do good God will reward us and when we do evil he…
Category: time passes
Vic Damone RIP
Vic Damone has died aged 89.Surely one of the last of the post-war crooners (autocorrect just helpfully suggested “coroners”) He had the inevitable colourful life and the Personal Life section…
“Fearful of My Joy” – Adam deVille on cooking, feasting and the sacramental
I am running the risk of turning this blog into nothing but reposting of Adam deVille, but I could resist this 2013 post on cooking, feasting, joy, and the sacramental…
Snipe and Woodcock at 33⅓ RPM: Listen The Birds 8 / Hoor De Vogels 8
I came across this birdsong album in my family home lately. As will become clear, I can’t find out much about it online, but I felt that the aesthetic of…
“the unbridled onward rush into the abyss”
From “Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time” by Simon Garfield: “Optimistically, the more benign form of frenetic standstill is not a new thing. In the terminology of popular…
Reading on the bus: a literary bus conductor from Arnold Bax’s Farewell My Youth.
(edit August 30th – (edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of…
Peter Reason on pilgrimage, ecology and in-between space.
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…
Hearing secret harmonies in Dunfanaghy – Arnold Bax in Donegal, from “Farewell My Youth”
(edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of the Irish revolution,…
Séamus Sweeney 