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Posted on April 5, 2020August 15, 2019

Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest

Here are excerpts from Blog Of A City Priest’s reflection on Palm Sunday from last year: Long Gospel, huh?  Why does the Church have to have all this lengthy pageantry?…

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Posted on September 6, 2019

“The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars”, Melody S Gee

Yesterday’s Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets was “The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars” About the Poem, Melody S Gee comments: “This is part of The Convert, a series…

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Posted on May 31, 2019

Ascension Day: a poem

Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension, so this is late. I guess it is still May 30th in California and points West (up to the International Date Line) though:…

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Posted on May 10, 2019

“mar nach mbeidh ‘chuile mháthair mar sin lena mac féin?” #MarianMay – “Caoineadh Na Tri Mhuire” (The Lament of the Three Marys) , Joe Heaney

Joe Heaney was a sean-nos singer born just over one hundred years ago near Carna in Connemara. He sang in both Irish and English, and would contribute to John Cage’s…

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Posted on April 19, 2019February 14, 2019

Music for #GoodFriday: “Les Sept dernières paroles du Christ en Croix”, César Franck

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Posted on August 18, 2018

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…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018

#GoodFriday – reflections on the #SevenLastWords by Robert Hugh Benson

I have posted Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s  meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, along with Haydn’s Seven Last Words Here is the Introduction “Father, forgive them,…

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Posted on March 30, 2018

“I thirst”

From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE FIFTH WORD I thirst. Our Lord continues to reveal His own condition, since He, after all, is the key to all…

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