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Posted on August 22, 2019

For Feast of the Queenship of Mary: Salve Regina, sung by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

For a previous post featuring these monks, see here.

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Posted on March 11, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch 11th: “De Angelis”, Moines de Santo Domingo de Silos

Holding the title of having recorded the best-selling Gregorian Chant album of all time, the Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo de Silos have been described as : The ensemble is not…

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Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

What poets, monks and nuns know about silence

Originally posted on Tracy Rittmueller:
Poets live with silence:  the silence before the poem;  the silence when the poem comes; the silence in between the words, as you drink the…

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Posted on May 18, 2018May 15, 2018

Denise Levertov, “Conversion of Brother Lawrence”

I particularly love the lines “your way was not to exalt nor avoid the Adamic legacy, you simply made it irrelevant” – which neatly summarises Brother Lawrence’s way of deceptive…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

The past and future of handwriting- David Rundle in the TLS

In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…

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Posted on January 2, 2018January 2, 2018

The many uses of St Columba

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…

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Posted on September 30, 2017

“Of Smelly Monks and Annoying Neighbours” – Hannah LeGrand in Comment Magazine

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…

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Posted on November 6, 2016July 5, 2018

“Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision – Seven Centuries on Skellig Michael” by Geoffrey Moorhouse

I have yet to actually set foot on either Skellig. Geoffrey Moorhouse, in the preface to his Sun Dancing, describes being captivated by its appearance while on a family holiday in…

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