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What Is Celtic Spirituality? Asked The Pilgrim
Pilate asked Jesus 'What is truth?' and would not wait for an answer. People who study only through the head and not also through the heart dismissively ask 'What is Celtic spirituality?' A music therapist from Norway yesterday asked me for Celtic music, and I, playing devil's advocate like Pilate, ...
Aidan And Hilda Worship Spreads
Carol Smith writes: 'It was such a joy and a privilege to be leading worship with CA&H members in the chapel built by Saint Cedd of Lindisfarne at Bradwell, Essex. I said I think he would be pleased that worship is still being offered in the house of prayer that...
Three Super Olympic Gifts
The three Olympic aspirations are Higher, Faster, Stronger. But some of the food and drink chains who sponsor the Olympic Village are unfit for purpose. As www.stuff.co.nz points out, Greedier, Lazier, Hungrier might be the three ‘gifts’ of such sponsors. They mock the three Olympic gifts. This week non-Olympians came to Holy Island...
Olympic Flame Of Prayer
The 2012 Olympic Games draw together the world’s sports lovers in hope. The Games began in honour of the god Zeus, which the Olympic Hymn still reflects. The Olympic Flame, carried by runners to herald the Games, was introduced by Hitler. Celebrating raw energy is not enough to create lasting...
Unhealed History
Sandi Kerner, from Richmond, Virginia, is here on Holy Island. She will take her Pilgrim Vows this week, and Philadelphia volunteer Judy Shelley will take her first vows.
Richmond was a cockpit of America's Civil War, and many wounds inflicted by slavery and white and black suspicion remain unhealed. A local minister, Rev Benjamin Campell, has...Jim And The Knife
Before we had The Open Gate I lived on Holy Island in a small cottage with one spare room. The first people who asked me to lead a retreat just for them were two couples, including JIm and Jane Clark. Jim has just died in Norway after bequeathing his Celtic...
Monos
Monos is a think tank and a charity which seeks to foster a monastic spirit in church and society
Penny Warren and I joined others at Mount St Bernard's Cistercian Monastery, near Leicester UK for its annual conference. I gave an address on this year's theme 'New Monasticism and the Local...
Queen And Sinn Fein Deputy Advance Uk-irish Reconciliation
This is Sinn Fein candidate Sam Simpson's review of The Cowshed Revolution from the Irish Republic: 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It sounded to the deep within my own soul regarding the message of Christ as it applies to Christian community in our time and place.My interpretation of history and...
Only A Colliery Lass
Maureen Simpson's latest poem from Co. Durham::
I am only a colliery lass Not academic or stuff like that Others may know more than me But I have something they can't see I have a gift from God to me That makes me what I need to be God gave me aloving heart For the land where I...The Day Of Small Things
'Do not despise the day of small things' was the theme of the Community of Aidan and Hilda's Annual Week-end at Red Hill Centre, near Shakespeare's Stratford in the heart of England. Here are some bullet points from Simon Reed's keynote speech:
Let us not romanticise the... Page 65 of 95
