Saturday, 19 September 2015

Fr. Stephen cycling to Santiago de Compostela , Way of St. James,

 Nunraw Guest welcomed Fr. Stephen from Colorado. 
He began his Pilgrimage at Wick at the North of Scotland cycling on the Way of St. James, Santiago de Compostela.
He makes his Station at Nunraw Abbey overnight.
He offered his Mass , concelebrating with the community.
With an early start off he was to stop in Newcastle.
We feel in spirit with Fr. Stephen's pilgrimage all the way ...
 Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church
Rev Stephen A, Siebert-Foley
1311 3rd St
Greeley, COLORADO  80631
(970) 353-1747
 Interesting - Rosinante-Quixote
Cervantes name of the donkey.
I ask if Fr. Stephen cycling to Santiago de Compostela , Way of St. James,
might name Rosinante the bike.


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From: Donald McGlynn <nunrawdonald@yahoo.com>
To: Donald McGlynn <nunrawdonald@yahoo.com> 
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Sent: Friday, 18 September 2015, 16:34
Subject: Rosinante-Quixote

Bicycle to Compostello - Fr Stephen.
Later the photos at Nunraw pilgrim.
Sent from my iPad.      
From: Jack Miles (milesjack shaw.ca)
Subject: 
Quixote
It may be of interest to note that both Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on the same day, April 23, 1616. Two of the most well-known, talented authors from those medieval years to die the same day is a coincidence that most authors would not dream of!
Jack Miles, North Vancouver, Canada




Stephen asked for the Abbot's blessing  setting off.

I asked Stephen's name of the bicycle.
Not called so, I suggested the name Rosinante.
see below.

The Magic of Words 

Sep 13, 2015
This week’s theme
Characters from Don Quixote who became words

This week’s words



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From: Jack Miles (milesjack shaw.ca)
Subject: 
Quixote
It may be of interest to note that both Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on the same day, April 23, 1616. Two of the most well-known, talented authors from those medieval years to die the same day is a coincidence that most authors would not dream of!
Jack Miles, North Vancouver, Canada


From: Andrew Pressburger (andpress sympatico.ca)
Subject: Quixote
The Don may have dreamed the impossible dream and tilted into windmills, but he was nobody’s fool. This is what he has to say on the delicate subject of self-satisfied authors’ bias: “It is natural to fathers and mothers not to think their own children ugly; and this error is nowhere so common as in the offspring of the mind.”
Andrew Pressburger, Toronto, Canada


From: SarahRose Werner (swerner nbnet.nb.ca)
Subject: Hah! After many years, I am justified (by your alternate pronunciation of Quixote)
I was about nine or ten when my mother used the expression “tilting at windmills” in conversation. Then she asked me if I knew where the phrase came from. I replied proudly, “Yes, it’s from Don Quixote!”
Alas, I was unaware that Spanish assigns different pronunciations to letters than English does. I pronounced the Don’s name as “QUIX-oat”.
My mother had minored in Spanish in university and worked for the Children’s Aid Society in Spanish Harlem. She started laughing and told me that I made the Don sound like breakfast cereal. I suppose she thought this was funny, but I was embarrassed and angry.
Four decades later, my feelings have been somewhat assuaged by the alternate pronunciation you offered: KWIK-suht. I wasn’t far off after all.
SarahRose Werner, Saint John, Canada


From: Tom Ryan (ryandenver msn.com)
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--quixote
Great theme this week. Earlier this year I read the entire 940 pages of Don Quixote. Just an amazing literary work. But I also think that there is a broad misconception about this wonderful character. The best description of who Don Quixote really was comes from his own words which I copied while reading the book:
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams -- this may be madness; and madness of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.”

Tom Ryan, Littleton, Colorado
Nunraw Abbey - Pilgrimage of the Youth for the 14 September 2015

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