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  • TSSF

    I’m honoured to find that one of my sermons has made it into the study pack for the European Chapter Meeting of the Third Order Franciscans which takes place next year in York. I’m not a member of TSSF though I seem to be meeting many of them on the pathways that I travel.

  • Brother Roger RIP

    It seems that Brother Roger of Taiz? has been killed during one of the services in the community. Apparently a woman stabbed him during Vespers which was attended by 2500 people, mostly young people gathered from all over Europe. Taiz? was an important part of my own pilgrimage. I spend two separate weeks there in…

  • Ruth Blog

    Mother Ruth is blogging again:http://www.blog.co.uk/main/index.php/revruth

  • Sermon – 14 August 2005

    Whilst I was on holiday I was sitting one day in a caf? in Scotland and got to overhearing people talk. And the talk was of the terrorist attacks in London that had just been happening ? both the bombs that went off and those which failed to go off. As I listened to the…

  • Old photos

    I’ve just been looking through some old photographs. What different eyes I had.

  • What have I been reading?

    Why, thank you for asking. Whilst I was o­n holiday, I read, amongst other things:At swim, two boys by Jamie O’Neill  [What a lot of Irish history you have to wade through but it is worth it in the end].The Magus by John Fowles [First read in Cairo 8 years ago]Since returning from holiday I’ve read (twice)…

  • Garden

    Spent an hour this afternoon watching the apples pray.

  • Blog Anniversary

    It is the second anniversary of my blog. Nearly 600 postings posted and who would have believed that the temporary design would have lasted this long?Want to catch up? Highlights from the past year include the following:The SexretaryCamel of the YearThe curious inicident of the mouse in the night timeVirtue captures my heartTen Liturgical CommandmentsThat…

  • Jung

    Someone once told me that I shouldn’t read Jung until after the age of 35. At the time, this made me rather cross, but now somehow I can see what he meant. I have been reading a bit of Jung and a bit of Jungian stuff recently and it all does see rather different now.…

  • Vet II

    “Just put this cream on her eye twice a day for five days….” What fun to have a vet with such an extraordinarily well developed sense of humour. I bet he lies awake chuckling at night at the instructions he has given people during the day.