Ray's Blog: August 2013
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...
Posted at 01:37am on 28th August 2013
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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...
Posted at 12:30pm on 23rd August 2013
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...
Posted at 14:17pm on 15th August 2013
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...Posted at 23:53pm on 9th August 2013
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...Posted at 11:34am on 3rd August 2013
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