I absolutely on principle refuse to use the abbreviation LOL and the like, but I genuinely found myself Rolling on the floor laughing (ROFL) at this one: One of my blog subscriptions was going through the google terms which people used to get to her blog and found: Do not stand at my grave and […]
I have been using my Curve 8320 for a couple of weeks now, and have been playing with it an awful lot. I am beginning to work *with* it now rather than against it, and I have to say that frankly I love it with a passion bordering on the indecent: as far as geeky […]
The liturgy can be found here Around 150-160 people came and shared this Mass of Unity. We were gobsmacked. The cafe was full: people lounging around on huge cushions, relaxing in the audiovisual soaking, of multiple screens around the cafe, all showing the same videos. The Penitential Rite: Kneed Forgiveness – we work our sins […]
From apparently nowhere in the Jesus Arms in the middle of the Greenbelt Festival we produce a couple of crates which are placed one on top of another on a table to produce an impromptu throne. It is draped with a sumptuous white/gold cloth. Sanctuary bells are rung, and Jesus is brought out in the […]
If you are Greenbelting and are around on the Monday evening, then 6pm in the New Forms Café will see Blesséd’s debut at Greenbelt with … wait for the original title … Mass ! There seems so much to organise still, so much to get ready. Unfortunately, due to parish commitments, I can’t be there […]
Text: Matthew 16:13-20 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen I love books. I have lots of books. My Study is overrun with books. My Study is overrun, frankly, with the detritus of parishLife, to the extent that you often can’t see the floor. […]
Sadly, there will be no photos to accompany this post, as I think the pictures will go better in your head… I am one of those people who strive to be tidy: I crave order, I love lists, and make them obessively. Major events like the Summer Fayre, Holy Week and Christmas are planned down […]
Well, it was only £3 a year to register the domain… Fellow Readers (if there are any of you!), I present to you www.parishlife.org.uk for all your bitter and twisted liberal catholic ranting and unpleasantness, commonly known as “my blog”. I know I have a habit of collecting domain names like some people collect empty […]
I have decided to change my preaching for a little while, to draw closer to what works so well midweek and is so much more Spirit-led. I am planning to stop writing Sermons (stop cheering at the back) and preach more openly and for a distinctly shorter time. I suppose my model and inspiration is […]
(this bit written earlier) The Assumption tomorrow is, of course, significant for us all as Catholics, but it takes on further significance as it is expected to be the announcement of the new Shrine Administrator. They have played it very close to their chest, but one name kept cropping up, a name well known to […]
