Many have written about Susan Boyle, her faith, her membership of the Catholic Parish Choir in Blackburn in West Lothian, the significance of her choice of “I Dreamed a Dream,” from the musical “Les Miserables,” the parable that she lives, and what we can learn from this. I only add to that two video clips
Susan Boyle – 25 years ago Read More »
Here is the link to is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the fifth Sunday of Easter, May 10.
Fifth Sunday of Easter – May 10 Read More »
There are a lot of notices going around about services on 24 May celebrating the signing of the Anglican Methodist Covenant in Aotearoa New Zealand. But it appears relatively difficult for people to actually get hold of the covenant being signed. Here you can download a pdf of the Anglican Methodist Covenant. Here is a
Anglican Methodist covenant Aotearoa New Zealand Read More »
Biretta tip – updated to: Canterbury cap – see comment 2 below 🙂 to Scott Gunn
How to welcome new people to church – NOT! Read More »
Listen to the Word Author: Daniel McCathy Hardback, 154 pages Available from Redemptorist Publications The highlight of my weekly reading of the Tablet in 2006-7 was the commentary on the Sunday collect/opening prayer by Daniel McCarthy OSB. Cutting-edge scholarship met healthy spirituality. I am hence delighted that these commentaries have been revised and collected together.
Listen to the Word Read More »
I was surprised to open the Easter edition (11 April) of the reputable Tablet to find the first article was a one-and-a-half page, very confused criticism of part of the Eucharist by Stephen Hough. The qualifications for this article as given by the Tablet is that he “is a concert pianist”. Mr. Hough is “perturbed”
Front page news in our local newspaper (which, by the way as far as I know has still not retracted the false, fabricated papal faux pas it wrote about) today is: “The Maori hongi and the traditional Catholic communion are among the centuries-old traditions being put on hold amid fears over a global swine flu
church and swine flu Read More »
I recently attended a suburban Anglican church. It shall remain nameless – as its location etc. is not important. I’ll call it St. Alban for convenience. At most the church building could probably hold 130, maybe 150 people. The community who built it probably never anticipated more than a couple of hundred attending on a
small church – is beautiful Read More »
