Posted in Book, Events, tagged Book, Borders Book Festival, Silent Auction on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Busy day yesterday which began with sorting out bids for our upcoming Silent Auction (Sat 28th 2-4pm). You have to be careful when you are doing this sort of job with others. It is easy to gasp in horror at some treasures but you must always remember that it may be someone’s loved objet. One [...]
Posted in Book, Events, tagged Book, Borders Book Festival, Salley Vickers on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This weekend it is the Borders Book Festival at Melrose. Salley Vickers is giving a talk and I have one extra ticket available for anyone who wants it. She is speaking on Saturday at 5.30pm at the Harmony Marquee. First come, first served.
Salley Vickers wrote Mr Golightly’s Holiday and Miss Garnet’s Angel, amongst others. If [...]
Posted in Book, tagged Black Madonna, Book, Feminism on May 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Bookmark last night and we all agreed that we LOVED this book by Sue Monk Kidd. (Even our token man loved it.) The author, born in a small town in Georgia, started off life as a nurse but went on to study spirituality, philosophy, mythology and woman stuff. She is a big fan of Thomas [...]
Posted in Book, tagged Book, The Witch of Portobello on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
No, that’s not me. That’s the name of the latest book by Paulo Coelho which I have just finished reading.
It is the story of Athena (not her real name) and her spiritual journey. The book is told by several of Athena’s friends, family and people who met her along the way. A curious book but [...]
Posted in Book, Events, Music, tagged Books, Holiday, Holy Island on March 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well, did you miss me little flock and dear readers? Know that candles were lit for you all in the parish church on Holy Island. And no, that was not just as a heat source. For I arrived on Easter Monday to hail, ice and snowdrifts and spent the first few days huddled over a [...]
Posted in Book, Church, tagged Compline, Dom Gregory Dix, Holy Week, Was ever a command on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Have you noticed how blogging amongst clergy declines as Holy Week progresses?
For the last three nights about 20 of us have gathered at the Requiem Altar for candlelit Compline. Bishop Alan Smithson offered three meditations on the Cosmic Christ and they have been incredibly thought-provoking. On Tuesday he asked me to read a passage from [...]
Posted in Book, tagged Books on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You may remember that as part of my Lenten discipline I have decided not to read fiction this Lent. However I did make one exemption for our Book Group and have just finished The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud by Ben Sherwood. What an interesting novel. It is about two brothers, one of [...]
Posted in Book, Church, tagged Book, lion, Prayer Cards, St Mark on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Met up with S recently who I hadn’t seen for ages. We exchanged Christmas presents and she gave me a beautiful book called Holy Cards by Barbara Calamari and Sandra Dipasqua. Its full of those gorgeous, and sometimes tacky, prayer cards that fill the pages of many of my books. It is also great to [...]
Posted in Book, Church, tagged Book, retreat, Silence on February 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Did she heck as like!
Back from retreat having put on at least half a stone. The food was sooo good but way too much for a sylph-like creature like myself who has been on a diet. But when you’re in silence you can’t ask for smaller portions and my mother always said you should clean [...]
Posted in Book, Church, Events, tagged Ash Wednesday, Books on February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Oh how I remember that first Ash Wednesday when Fr K said those words to me as he pressed ash in to my forehead. “Remember child that you are dust…” Not “Remember man that you are dust…” which had always been the form of words used in that church previously. I was startled initially, expecting [...]
