Day 3: a historical context
This will seem out of place in the context of some of the previous entries, but I am not going to post too many religious reflections. First of all, I’ve half-filled a note book...
Category: Personal
Day Two reflections
Chevalier’s own words: God says to me I have loved you with and everlasting love! Me. It is specifically me Whom God has so loved, Ungrateful me, sinful me… O God of Love, Make...
Day Two: an unpleasant surprise
It’s an intrusion into the story, but it affected the whole day, so I better insert it. I slept dreamlessly until 5.30 in the morning and I felt great, so up I got and...
Day 2 continued: visible catechesis
I suppose I can describe in words some of what I saw during the tour, but it really is the kind of place that was designed to be a visible testimony to Chevalier’s vision,...
The Company (of pilgrims)
It seems like a good opportunity to introduce the pilgrims and the Cor Novum tam, just as a way of remembering what an extraordinary journey this is. Phil is an old friend, part of...
Day One at Issoudun
You will forgive me if this entry is a strange mixture of the personal and the reflective. I am keeping notes on the program, but the traveller’s tales don’t make sense in this first...
Here's to Life
I’ve really fallen for this song! Once I heard it on Glenn Frey’s After Hours album, I’ve had to track it down for Streisand, Horn and so many others. Written by Artie Butler and Phyllis Molinary (then...
Glen Frey at the Sydney Opera House, 2 March 2013
Seriously, it was like a song-writing masterclass, from somebody who saw themselves as a beneficiary of the American Songbook – but who demonstrated that they were also a big contributor! Setlist: Peaceful Easy Feeling (Glenn Frey,...
A prayer that will haunt me all this year of wonders
(St. Teresa of Avila had these verses written in her breviary**) May nothing disturb you. May nothing astonish you. Everything passes. God does not go away. Patience can attain anything. He who has God...
Something a bit more creative
Working with Extension II kids on writing skills: specifically, transformation from recollection to narrative via ‘re-imagination’; so I thought I should make sure I could do it too. Here is my homework. The Mail...