In my prayer today I found myself remembering the song ‘The Way You Look Tonight’ as it was performed in the film Peter’s Friends. It always moves me.
Category Archives: Thoughts
Ordinary Beauty
I’ve just read (thanks to Matt) a superb piece of journalism from the Washington Post about a little experiment: put one of the world’s best violinists, with one of the world’s best violins, playing some of the world’s best violin music in a subway station and watch what happens. The article is fascinating. The accompanying …
Enough! the Resurrection
Happy Easter! With its dramatic transition from darkness to light and fire the Easter Vigil rather betrays by compression the grace of resurrection. In our living of it the joy of the resurrection often has to creep up on us. Ignatius says that the Risen Christ ‘comes in the office of consoler’ and that implies …
Holy Saturday: Nature and Grace
Von Balthasar’s insistence, which I wrote of yesterday, that the Paschal Mystery not be made natural reveals something of his approach to the perennial issue of the interrelationship of nature and grace. He has an absolute conviction of the chasm between the two, between infinite and finite, between Creator and creature, that is only bridged …
Spring
The Independent newspaper has celebrated Good Friday with a pullout of poetry about spring. There’s something very tempting about lining up the rebirth of nature as winter ends and the resurrection of Jesus at Easter. Tempting but, I think misleading. I was convinced by von Balthasar that naturalising the Paschal Mystery is a mistake. There’s …
Medical Update
Well my flirtation with new meds was brief. They were supposed to help with my sleep patterns, make the adrenaline anxiety easier to handle and help with the pain. I didn’t get past the first few days of restlessness, racing thoughts, agitation, and insomnia. The hardest part was trying to sit and pay attention in …
Happy Holy Week
I am back in blogland after helping out with our training courses for a month. I always enjoy the thinking and teaching involved though, this year more than the last, it took it out of me and left me with a growing set of CFS symptoms. Most of them are letting up a bit as …
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.
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 …
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 …