The world seems to be in constant pain, writhing, suffering, longing for release.
It might be our memories of that awful day in 2001 - 9/11.
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A welcome break in Fort Lauderdale this November, staying with friends and enjoying the warm elements before winter-return in the north country.
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In 2012, Alan Ford and Thomas O'Loughlin, both professors in Nottingham, discussed current interest in 'Celtic Christianity' and how what is imagined as the form of Christianity in the British Isle
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My ancestor Elizabeth Pennock married Thomas Gatenby at Glaisdale in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in 1799. Thomas died a few years later and Elizabeth worked the farm.
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While visiting 'Holy Island,' the island of Iona in Scotland, we travelled one day north on the Isle of Mull to Tobermory. The views are spectacular.
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About four kilometres east of Tinahely in the lovely Irish garden county of Wicklow, is a crossroad. At that junction, R747 from Aughrim turns right towards Tinahely.
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No one is born there. Everyone must choose to go there, the religious and the non-religious.
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Interviewed by Relevant Magazine, author Malcolm Gladwell told of his return to the faith of his childhood.
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I don't know quite what this musical instrument is, a kind of bagpipe I presume.
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A window in the small chapel behind Iona Abbey, at Iona, Scotland, This 'texturized' photo was achieved with a simple iPad app effect.
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St. Mary’s, Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk, England
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Taken in 2012 at St. Andrew’s, Wingfield, Suffolk, England
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Wandering the streets of Rome, Italy.
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Parliament Buildings, London, England
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The London Eye, London, England - a giant Ferris wheel located on the South Bank of the River Thames.
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Iconic buses in London, England
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Trafalgar Square Lion, London, England
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Ancient ruins at Clonmacnoise, Co Offaly, Ireland.
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Lovely B & B at St. Antoine-de-Till, just SW of Quebec City, on the south bank of the St. Lawrence River.
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Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship
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Pathway in the desert and mountains, near Scottsdale, Arizona. Peregrine falcons get to fly; pilgrims have to walk.
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Co Wicklow home of ancestors, relatives: the Langrells - at Cappagh townland, near Aughrim. I am descended from Sarah Langrill who married Charles Willoughby in 1849.
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The Tudor revival building, an emporium, built in London's Soho district in the 1920's was designed by Edwin T. Hall and his son Edwin S. Hall for Arthur Lasenby Liberty.
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Old rural buildings in Ireland.
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Old cottage by the roadside, somewhere in 'middle' Ireland.
There are pioneer souls that blaze the paths
Where highways never ran-
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Rome has beauty, history, culture, relgion and much more on every street and corner.
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I was glad when they said unto me, 'Let us go into the house of the Lord.' Psalm 122:1
A priest on holidays visits an ancient church, not far from the Colosseum in Rome.
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We all wear them.
Wooden mask in street marketplace, Nairobi, Kenya
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