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Oslo University And Church Networks
The monthly International Students Meeting combined with the Theological Students for a packed lunch-hour meeting on Celtic Christianity which overflowed into canteen conversations. One African after another said 'Thank you. This model speaks to us'. The model was that of Aidan of Lindisfarne and those who follow practices inspired...
Anamcara Norway At Utstein Kloster
Nearly thirty came by plane, car and boat for the annual gathering of Anamcara, the Community of Aidan and Hilda in Norway . It was held for the first time at Pilegrimsgard, our west coast link retreat house 45 minutes from Stavanger. Reidun Kyllingsgrad and her inspiring local Board...Stavanger And The Gentle Gospel
The Sarn people (once known as Laps) have a Church of Norway centre among the forest mountains and lakes at Nydlys, near Sandnes. The Bishop and Deans of the Stavanger Diocese held their annual retreat there. About 10 deans each have oversight of 9 to 15 clergy. I was invited...A Weekful Of Aidan
It began last Saturday. It was standing room only at Lindisfarne's Saint Mary's Church, what with two music groups and the Bishop of Newcastle to trumpet in Saint Aidan's Week amid the most glorious Lindisfarne Gospels Flowers and Arts.It continued on Sunday. After the church service, a Northumbrian...
Fort, Festival And Flowers - Armagh, Edinburgh And Lindisfarne.
ARMAGH SPIRITUALITY CENTRE AT NAVAN FORTEn route home from Ireland I detoured to Armagh's Centre for Celtic Spirituality at Navan Fort to lunch with Grace and Bruce Clunie. Grace is Director of the Spirituality Centre. Her work has been so valued by civic authorities that they have given...
Four Places In Ireland
A Golf Hotel, Blessington Lakes:I meet Dr. Bernadette Flanaghan of NewmonasticismsIreland. She describes this as a scholarly network of people who want to find a vocation. She thinks the motivational force of Christian communities is shifting from projects to a new consciousness from which we may live. This is...
Irish Reconnections
Dwyer and McAllister's Cottage, Wicklow Mountains. Padraig is a volunteer who opens it to visitors for two summer months. D and M helped lead 1790's insurrections against British occupying forces. Memorials to them abound throughout Co. Wicklow. In this cottage they hid. McAllister drew fatal fire which allowed...What's Being Born In Ireland?
Sister Sally and I met family in the Republic of Ireland's second city of Cork. Our brother Tony, pastor and artist, and his wife Anita, have tirelessly served the Travellers over the years. Jesus healed ten lepers, but commended the one that bothered to return and thank him. Recently a Traveller...God's Cottage, Glendalough
Glendalough, nestling among two lakes and seven valleys in Ireland's Wicklow mountains, attracts ever more visitors.We come for the beauty of nature, for her singing trees and streams. We come for the beauty of a holy soul, Saint Kevin, whose prayers in the lake vanquished the...
Tomato Ketchup And All That
How about this for a grace before a meal?Thank you for tomato ketchup (probably made in the Netherlands – God bless the Netherlands)
from tomatoes grown in Spain (God bless Spain)
pollinated by Turkish bumblebees (God bless Turkey)
manufactured in Slovakia (God bless Slovakia))
and consumed by us (God...
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