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Hannah LeGrand has a review of Kyle David Bennet’s Practices of Love in Comment Magazine which is worth reading. I’ve posted before on the romanticisation of monasticism. Both those who…
I recently re-blogged a section from Peter Reason’s new book, In Search of Grace. I’ve been reading it over the weekend and am sorely tempted to simply copy out sections.…
Opened on December 14th 1969 by Flann O’Brien’s English teacher the Church of St Laurence O’Toole in Kilmacud is one of those very late twentieth century ecclesiastical spaces in Dublin…
A while ago I blogged about Albrecht Durer’s engraving of St Jerome in his study. I linked to and quoted an article on St Jerome by James R Edwards which…
A month ago I featured long segments from a post by Adam DeVille on the romanticisation of monasticism. Again, here is another post worth reading in full. What makes this post important…
Perhaps this is why we feel so drawn to trees. Groves of redwoods and beeches are often compared to the naves of great cathedrals: the silence; the green, filtered, numinous…
Following my post on the Stained Glass of Augustinian Priory, Fethard here is more stained glass from Tipperary. I am not especially proficient at photography and this was taken in something…
The Creator, like a divine poet, in bringing the world into being out of nothingness, composed his Symphony in Six Days, the Hexameron. After each one of his creative acts,…
Séamus Sweeney 