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November 2016

Advent Nativity Calendar

Brilliant Advent Calendar

I recently bought an Advent Calendar with a difference. It looks like the image below. Each day of December, you take out a new piece and slot it into its numbered place on the oval base. 1 December: a palm tree 2 December: another palm tree 3 December: a donkey … 17 December: an Angel

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Arrival

Arrival

Arrival – American science fiction film Director: Denis Villeneuve Writer: Eric Heisserer Based on: “Story of Your Life”; short story by Ted Chiang Stars: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Tzi Ma. Trust me on two things: 1) Go and see this film 2) Go, knowing as little as possible. Don’t even

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Hugh of Lincoln

Saint Hugh of Lincoln

Anybody who has been following this website for some time knows my interest (read obsession) with Carthusians, and how we might learn from them, and live some of what they focus on – but outside cloister walls. Hugh of Lincoln (1135/40 – 16 November 1200), a Carthusian who went on to live the busy life

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concelebrating

25 Years A Priest

I was ordained a priest by Bishop David Coles in Christchurch Cathedral on 27 November 1991. On Advent Sunday (27 November 2016), twenty-five years on, I am grateful that the local parish, St Michael and All Angels, has invited me to preside and preach at the 10am Solemn Mass. [You are, of course, very welcome.

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