Flannery and Dante – a poem by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
At The Other Journal I come across this poem “riffing on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom for Dante” as the site itself puts it: Flannery and Dante For my money Dante is about as…
Tag: pilgrim
Malcolm Guite with pilgrimage poems for the first week of Lent
At his blog the poet Malcolm Guite features a suite of poems on pilgrimage, one for each day of the first week of Lent: In this first week in…
The Horgan Brothers’ film record of pilgrimage to St Declan’s Holy Well, Ardmore, 1910 — via Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland
Via the everfascinating Pilgrimage in Medical Ireland blog here is a post on pilgrimage to St Declan’s Holy Well, Ardmore, Waterford featuring footage from 1910 The footage is from the…
Emma Holland on the resurgent popularity of pilgrimage
On the website Thinking Faith, Emma Holland has an interesting piece on the resurgence of popularlity of pilgrimage. I’ve blogged a lot here about Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” a book which is…
“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…
Peter Reason on being a pilgrim and being a tourist
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.…
“In Search of Grace” , Peter Reason
Originally posted on James Common:
If, like me, you are an avid consumer of natural history based literature, you will surely love the below extract from Peter Reason’s new book, In…
A Labyrinth on the Rock of Cashel
Following a family visit to the Rock of Cashel yesterday, I came across this interesting paper by Peter Harbison – the full text of which contains a concise overview of…
