Readers may remember my writing about a small group of us making the commitment to sing Vespers and Compline at the Veterans hospital in Manchester, NH. We have been singing there fortnightly now since September last year. One of the…
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An education in truths that cannot be expressed in words
In his book, the Love of Learning and the Desire for God, Jean Leclerq describes various tensions playing out in education in the medieval period.
One arises from the love…
St Irenaeus and St Augustine on ‘seeing’ God Here are two short excerpts taken from the Office of Readings. The first, from St Ireneaus, is from Advent and the second, from St Augustine, is from the Octave of Christmas. Both,…
Recently when I went home to England we had a reunion of old college friends of mine. Most were not believers of any sort – I had known them since I was eighteen and so the friendships pre-date, by a…
