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...
Category: Religion
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...
A journey with a difference…
After the business and fuss of the last months, I have found myself on a train, traveling south from Paris. Strangely, I have very little idea, apart from the words in the Cor Novum...
Needed: dove with a serpent's guile
See on Scoop.it – Learning, Teaching, Leading There is an old Protestant joke that the ideal minister is a vigorous man (or woman) of 31 who has been married for 25 years and has...
Could hopes for change rise with white smoke?
See on Scoop.it – Learning, Teaching, Leading Deep in Vatican City, in a superb apartment overlooking Rome, resides a person I will call, for protocol reasons, Cardinal ”X”. Christopher Bounds‘s insight: Interesting times for...
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...
No merriness here: mosque puts fatwa on Christmas
No merriness here: mosque puts fatwa on Christmas. It’s worth reading the SMH (actually Sun-Herald) article to get a sense of the tawdriness of the journalism and the mutual insensitivity shown by the Sheikh...
Emily Dickinson: one voice that quietly nags
I can never decide whether I really like Dickinson or whether I just appreciate her (and you will appreciate the difference). It nags me because so many others are passionate about her poetry and I...