Pentecost Memories: Divine Dustbins
It doesn’t take much for my imagination to take off in a direction all its own and it was certainly …
Music
When I look at your heavens
What a great time for some lockdown stargazing! Clear skies…few planes…silence…tranquility. I’m hoping to spot the starlink satellites, though so …
Happy Easter!
Easter greetings from our little corner of the globe. Well…what can I say? This Lent has been the Lentiest Lent …
Advent ABC:X, Y and Z
Three for the price of one today! The sometime maligned term Xmas is actually perfectly legit. Did you realise that …
Advent ABC: W is for waiting
To echo the question dreaded by every parent trundling down the motorway with a car full of hot, sticky and …
Advent ABC: V is for Veni
Veni Emmanuel, sung here by the L’Accorche Choeur, to Kodaly’s setting. This traditional Advent and Christmastime hymn, one of my …
Advent ABC: R is for RE-Visiting
… some seasonal musical favourites. I’ll admit to engineering my choice of topic to fit today’s letter. It’s a tricky …
Advent ABC: Q is for Quiet
How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is given… – Oh Little Town of Bethlehem I’d several topics lined up for …
Advent ABC: P is for Prophets
Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight and the rough places plain. …
Advent ABC:’O’ Antiphons
The great O Antiphons of Advent in Western Christian tradition are chanted or recited at Evening Prayer during the …
Advent ABC: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
We have a Christmas Eve custom in our house, daughter and I. Come mid afternoon, we sit down …
Advent ABC: Mary
…Mother of Christ, Mother of God, loved and revered. Wherever you fall theologically on several millenia of marian devotion, that …