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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Birth of John the Baptist

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Some figures in the icon are reasonably self-explanatory.  The presence of the Blessed Virgin is a case in point: it can serve to remind the...
Friday, 15 June 2012

Feast of the Sacred Heart

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Reading David Richo's book has been an excellent way to prepare to celebrate the solemnity of  the Sacred Heart.  He shows how the heart...
Monday, 11 June 2012

David Richo's The Sacred Heart of the World (4) The wounded and open heart

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Important day.  It was two years ago today that I realised that somehow I had to figure out what the Sacred heart was really all about.  Str...
Thursday, 31 May 2012

David Richo's The Sacred Heart of the World (3) The Sacred Heart as a 'field'.

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Richo's The Sacred Heart of the World gives us a concise description of the Sacred Heart  which enables us to make this old devotion mor...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012

David Richo's The Sacred Heart of the World (2): 'minding the gap'

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There are quite a few books which provide detailed  histories of the devotion to the Sacred Heart.  And a complicated story it is. Thankful...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012

David Richo's The Sacred Heart of the World (1)

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When I first decided to rediscover the Sacred Heart through the commissioning of an icon, I determined that it should be a journey which w...
Thursday, 24 May 2012

C.S. Lewis and the broken heart

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 It is great to see people reading C.S. Lewis again.  Bookshops all seem to have copies of his books nowadays.  Reading The Four Loves rec...