September 2009
21 posts
“Saints need sinners.”
– Found on Flickr
Róisín Murphy - Through Time
This remains one...
“Religion is the art of learning to live with amazement.”
– Abraham J. Heschel
PJ Harvey - One Line
I stumbled upon this song...
This is a demo version of the song DJ from Amanda...
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own...”
– Paulo Coelho
Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Thoughts Are Free).
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11 September 2001:
I was off that day, and just returned from the record shop where I bought Kylie Minogue’s new single Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. I switched on the TV to find a tragic accident had just happened in New York. CNN reported that a plane had flown into one of the towers of the World Trade Centre. Sad and tragic, but understandably an accident like that could happen. After watching for a...
La Divina Infantita →
In honorem nativatem BVM.
This Mexican image of Baby Mary is know as ‘la Divina Infantita’, the Divine Child. All the jewels offered testify of the faith the Mexicans have in Baby Mary.
In nativitas BVM
It’s the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary today so during my lunch hour I passed St James’s church in London’s Marylebone to light two candles in Mary’s honour.
After all, her birth was the first step towards the redemption of humankind. That is why we call her Alma Redemptoris Mater & we owe her eternal praise and gratitude.
The flaws of man & his religion
I watched the movie Angels & Demons a while ago, based on Dan Brown’s book of the same name. The film featured a very striking line in one of the final scenes, spoken by a Vatican prelate: ‘Religion is flawed because man is flawed’. After leaving the cinema my partner and I both mentioned it as the most striking part of the movie. I would consider my partner spiritually curious,...
“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. Only the soul that...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe