Fr Simon's Secondhand Bookstall
Selling my books to make space (for more books)
UPDATE! I have just finished my first app running on Android: a conversion of my Electric Ordo. You can find it here on Google Play. This is my annual release of an Electronic Ordo or Church Calendar, containing daily information and readings for Mass each day according to both the Roman Lectionary and an alternative…
No, you can’t have it. The Common Worship lectionary is copyright. That bunch of bible verses is not mine to give away, for prayers or anything. I have withdrawn it from Google Play, which is a pity because a) It was a good way to learn Android App development because I compile the data each…
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I have a traditional view of marriage. I believe it to be a life-long commitment of one to another. I believe it calls the married to commitment, fidelity and honesty, sharing and mutual respect. That’s traditional. I believe that marriage is important for society: it builds community and places relationships and love at the centre…
A poem by Steve Turner If Jesus was born today If Jesus was born today it would be in a downtown motel marked by a helicopter’s flashing bulb. A traffic warden, working late, would be the first upon the scene. Later, at the expense of a TV network, an eminent sociologist, the host of a…
Family Communion: 19th October 2014 – other texts may be found in a similar vein at www.nurseryrhymemass.org.uk Gathering Song (Here we go round the Mulberry Bush) We gather round in this holy space Holy Space, filled with grace We gather round in this holy space To do what Jesus taught us We hear the stories…
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As sung at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Please excuse this necessarily techy post – there’ll be something about the Church along in a minute… I have all my key data on a number of Network Attached Storage devices: hard disks which are directly wired to the network rather than another PC. This all gets backed up on the cloud and so (hopefully)…
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I had a colleague who was most against the recording of homilies/sermons what is the difference between them? I understand homilies to be preached by those in holy orders and sermons can be preached by lay or ordained. Whether accurate or not, I suspect homilies are shorter as well… 🙂 but I thought there was some merit…
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Dear Internet, I need your help to make a new video meditation… Instructions If you have a phone like an iPhone or an Android, there is usually an app to record your voice – often called “Voice Memo” or some thing similar. I use a free Android App called ASR which can be installed for…
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