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The Vicar on the New Archbishop

Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington is Vicar of St Hilda’s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid member of the Great [...]

A Little Horse

The Brits are all upset because some folks have slipped horse meat into their frozen dinners. You can read the shocking news here. I’ve never seen what the fuss is all about. The French have been eating horse meat forever without any particularly bad reaction. The British have always been horrified at this French custom, [...]

Old Monk on Silence

How can you hear the still, small voice of God if you are talking all the time?

Obama is a Gift from God

Kathy Schiffer says on FB that everything is a gift from God, and a commenter says, “Obama is a gift from God??” Sure. Kathy is right. Well, actually she was re-tweeting what the Holy Father had tweeted, so although Kathy is a great and original writer she’s not that original. How is Obama a gift from [...]

Losing Everything or Gaining Everything

Being brought up in a Bible believing Protestant home, I had to memorize verses from the King James Version of the Bible. I’m glad I did. Not only did I learn God’s word by heart, but the words were written in my heart. There in there. Down deep. One of the verse I had to [...]

To Emulate the Lion and the Lamb

In reading the story of St Paul Miki today I was struck by the detail that he and his companions marched 600 miles from Kyoto to Nagasaki where they were crucified. Along the way they were singing the Te Deum. There is in the story of the martyrs this amazingly supernatural joy. In what other [...]

British Parliament Redefines Marriage

Today the UK Parliament took the first legal steps to sanction same sex marriage. The implications of their re-definition of marriage are very ominous indeed, and the ignorant arrogance of their lawmakers is breath taking. Think about it for a moment. Nowhere, not in any time or any place, not in any culture or civilization [...]

Drone Wars Now?

A conversation I had only six months ago. A man I’ll call John Doe was visiting Greenville and spoke to me after Mass… DL: Nice to see you here. What brings you to Greenville? JD: I’m an aeronautics engineer. I’m here on business. DL: Interesting. What sort of airplanes? JD: Remote controlled DL: You mean like [...]

Old Monk on Monks

Visitor to the monastery: What is the most difficult thing about monastic life? Old Monk: Other monks. Visitor: Why are they so difficult? Old Monk: Because they are like me.

Aliens Elephants and Angels

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed a seemingly profound, but ultimately silly discussion which is prevalent within popular. It’s called the Fermi Paradox and it goes like this: “There are billions of stars out there like the sun. Therefore, statistically there must be billions of planets like earth where intelligent life has developed. [...]