Archive for July, 2007
Will Money heal?
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
No one should have to suffer any form of sexual abuse; it can leave terrible physical and emotional scars that can take a life time to heal.
I have a great deal of sympathy for those who have to go through it and I wonder if they ever really recover from the traumatic experience. Some never [...]
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The devil quotes scripture…
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
In our efforts to reach out to fellow Christians we must be conscious not to overlook the needs of those of other faiths or none. It has been pointed out to me on occasion that the only group which led to anger from Jesus was a ‘Church’. It wasn’t the atheists or even those who [...]
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Laughter won’t be the best cure
Monday, July 16th, 2007
Unfortunately, over the last year, I’ve had to spend a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms. They are drab and dreary places which is understandable considering that it’s full of the sick and injured. However there’s a few obvious things that become noticeable to those who have to spend more time there then they’d [...]
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Relying on Technology
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
I went to see Die Hard 4.0 in the cinema last night and while enjoying it, came away wondering how would we all react if the storyline in this film ever took place in real life.
Now I realise it might seem slightly strange to think that discussing anything from an action movie would have any [...]
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Harry Potter’s magic at work in the Church
Friday, July 13th, 2007
With the release of this year’s blockbuster film, ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, does the popularity of such a story have anything to say to us about the spiritual health of our country’s youth?
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A democratic Church??
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
It is unheard of in the west today to speak badly of democracy as a form of governance and to speak well of a more dictatorial style. What many Catholics tend to forget is that the Catholic Church is not a ‘democracy’.
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Britain….the western Iran??????
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
A storm has started to develop in Britain after comments made by Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien. Asked whether institutionalised anti-Catholicism existed in Scotland he didn’t need to check statistics…the answer was most certainly a ‘Yes’!
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All You need is love?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
A Red C Poll, for the Irish Examiner Newspaper, has shown that nearly a quarter of Irish Adults have cheated on their partners.
Adultery is something that has risen to prominence over the last 15 years. In some ways it’s seen as a badge of honour. We revel in the stories in the newspapers about those [...]
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Founder of Western Christian Monasticism
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
St. Benedict (480-547)
Frustrated by the lack of discipline, Benedict left his school in Rome and lived as a hermit for three years. His holiness inspired an abbey to ask him to lead them. He wrote the Rule of St. Benedict and founded twelve monasteries. He could read consciences, predict the future, and stop attacks by [...]
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Rule no. 1: Prayer is Personal
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
So…if prayer is a way of life….if prayer is the actions we do for love of God rather than the words we say then what of traditional prayer? What does a bed ridden patient do to improve their relationship with the Divine?
The answer, in short, is that there are many forms of ‘traditional’ prayer which, [...]
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