This riddle is doing the rounds locally. Can you see the answer (without googling!)? I am: Greater than God; More evil than the devil; The rich want for me, Yet the poor have me; But if you eat me, you will die. Who am I?
Yearly Archives: 2006
Addictive Aquarium Game
If you’d like to waste a few hours here’s a fascinatingly addictive aquarium game to help you in your procrastination.
Wednesday Week 2 of Advent
Readings: Isaiah 40:25-31; Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus confuses me. I love this gospel but my first reaction hearing Jesus words ‘I am gentle and humble in heart’ is to say ‘who are you kidding?’ We used to have a big red poster downstairs, done by Cafod I think, with a face of Jesus, Ché Guevara-style, and …
Post Plugins Updated
Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have all been updated. The update is an interim bug-fix until the next real versions are ready. Two bugs are addressed. One caused some users to get spurious characters displayed before the post listing. The other… well the plugins were meant to work together but I’d …
Discipleship
The following talk was given to a weekend retreat group. I begin by referring to a session the previous evening where I’d shown a couple of clips from the film American Beauty in which the central character, at the point of death, reflects on his life and finds himself moved by gratitude and beauty. I …
Eros, Attraction, Beauty, Desire
The “October” issue of The Way has just been published including my article on the Spiritual Exercises, “Id Quod Volo: The Erotic Grace of the Second Week”. I wrote briefly about the core idea a little while ago and if you are interested you can access the full version free, gratis, and for nothing at …
Sunday Week 33 Year B
Homily for a Study Day on the Spiritual Exercises dealing with the Contemplatio ad Amorem Readings: Dan 12:1-13; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mark 13:24-32 A plane passed over and I could hear it with a shudder even though I was sitting in The Arches (basement prayer room). I heard the plane in my praying and the …
Post Plugins Updated
Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have all been updated. One or two bugs in parameter handling have been fixed, certain parameters can now be blank where appropriate, or be more complex than before, e.g., ‘before_title=<li class=”item”>’. Excerpts can now be trimmed down to stop them ending in mid-word. They can be …
Saturday Week 31 Year II
Readings: Philippians 4:10-19; Luke 16:9-15 Money continues to be in the spotlight today and it’s interesting how Jesus both praises and condemns it in the same breath. He calls it tainted, little, even loathsome and yet, precisely because it is so unimportant it assumes importance. How we handle the small stuff reveals our hearts better …
Too Attached to Words
It isn’t as if it is entirely news to me… but a recent round of being edited for publication has really rubbed in how attached I am to the sound of my own ‘voice’. I’ve been working with Philip Endean, SJ, editor of The Way, to get an article ready for the latest issue and …