Happy Birthday on Epiphany Day.
And may 2008 bring you many more Blessings and Joys.
Thank you for your Christmas letter and all your great communications/inspirationals in recent months.
The great thing is having Nivard around to catch all the news items I might miss.
Since Abbot Raymond went to Our Lady of the Angels,
A good neighbour sent us a greeting Card for Epiphany. You may like it. See the Note and attached picture.
Epiphany. Willam Blake ‘Adoration of the Kings’
In this painting by William Blake we see the three Magi dressed in red, orange and purple offer gifts to Joseph and Mary in the stable. An ox and ass can be seen in the corner of the stable. A star shines in through the doorway of the stable. (Presented to
Friday we had heavy snow in the East of Scotland. There was a Scottish Border’s Catholic Youth Group planning to come to Nunraw to be de-briefed from their Rome Pilgrimage last Autumn. They would be collected from the various parishes, Galashiels,
After all the bustle of Christmas celebrations it has been a welcome time to relax.
And it so happened I came across an amazing paper-back to enjoy some light reading. It has been worth it weight in gold.
The sub-title, “Out of Egypt” caught my eye because we had been hearing about the “Flight into
Anne Rice was a good New Orleans Catholic until she lost her faith at the age of 18 in the campus culture of US University life. She became a best selling author of books on legends of Vampires, covens of witches, etc.
She recovered her Catholic Faith and has now dedicated her work to writing about Jesus.
Anne Rice describes the genesis of her conversion. It began in 1998 with a return to the Catholic faith she had abandoned. Thereafter she embarked on an intense search into the question of Jesus, eventually "reading the Bible constantly" and then devouring all the scholarly works of the prominent Jesus researchers. The book, published 2005, included an Author’s Note giving a most enlightening account of her recovery in the Faith. There are 276 Customer Reviews on the Amazon book Website. Belief Net choose “Christ the Lord Out of
Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
During the Christmas UK cinemas are screening the fantasy, “Golden Compass” for the target audience of children.
Reuters reports: Vatican calls Golden Compass movie hopeless
The
In contrast, it is reassuring that there are writers, like Anne Rice, to show that ‘the devil does not always have the best tunes’, (. . . wherever that quote originated, see William Booth).
In “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt”, Anne Rice combines her passionate research with a mastery of the art of story telling. Maybe it could be called a talent for Christian "Contemporary Midrash". It is a gripping narrative of the events of the Epiphany of the Magi, the flight into
“Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to
On a personal note I was taking up this theme of Jesus in
I look forward to the sequel, “Christ the Lord: Road to