Premature

I think I was a little premature in my claim to be back in action. I loved presiding at Mass–it’s where I belong–after a few weeks break but it took a disproportionate toll and I’m still, the morning after, shaking and aching.

3 comments February 19th, 2007

Sunday Week 7 Year C

Readings: 1 Sam 26:2-23; 1 Cor 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38

Today’s readings are a charter for stupidity and a counsel for failure.

Economics is founded on the belief that value grows by self-interest. Politics is built on the conviction that power must be contained by power and violence met with violence. And the biological science has shown that you just can’t beat tit-for-tat as an evolutionary strategy and way of life. Any population of Jesus-type, turn-the-other-cheek do-gooders will always be overrun by those who get their own back.

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3 comments February 18th, 2007

Back in Action

All being well I’ll have a homily to post shortly though I must admit I’m not that happy with it. This will be my first time presiding at Mass in a few weeks of not feeling up to it. I must admit I’m not entirely sure it’s a good idea today either! My brain is still a bit befogged and I’m fretting about whether I’ll remember my words. So time to trust someone else and let him carry the celebration.

Add comment February 18th, 2007

Un-Messed?

Here’s hoping that the worst problems with my web hosting are fixed. I cured the memory errors easily once I knew what was going on — the poorer performance is out of my hands but my host is aware of the issue and promises an improvement.

I haven’t posted very much recently — more CFS problems — but there has been a lot of activity in the comments as I’ve been responding to issues around the various plugins I’ve written for WordPress.

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3 comments February 8th, 2007

Messed Up

I apologise for the mess the site is in at the moment. My hosting provider has just moved my account to a new server which seems both slower and prone to give me ‘out of memory’ errors if I activate more than a handful of plugins.

I hope I hear back from them very soon and normality might be restored.

Add comment February 6th, 2007