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December 6, 2021

Amazing Grace

Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th Century German mystic, abbess, scientist, philosopher, writer and composer considered music to be ‘the highest form of human activity; mirroring the sounds of the spheres…
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December 1, 2021 in Blog, Faith

Light and Dark

A Benedictine Abbey and a German rock group: it was a curious juxtaposition with which to mark the beginning of the season of Advent and one of its most powerful…
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November 28, 2021 in Blog, Faith

Advent and the Call to Conversion

Advent and the Call to Conversion Advent is Lent’s poor relation when it comes to abstinence and fasting. The season is no longer penitential in the way Lent continues to…
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November 17, 2021 in Blog

The Power of Music

Music, perhaps more than anything else, has the power to transport us to another time and place. (more…)
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November 11, 2021 in Blog

Dringling in the Lakes

It was the first day of our Autumn holiday and I’d picked up a book about lovely, quirky words coined in the English language that had never made it into…
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