Thanks A.C. Grayling and Richard Dawkins for making me laugh so much…

Thanks A.C. Grayling and Richard Dawkins for making me laugh so much.  It is the comedy of  total condemnation in the most confident tones of subjects about which the hanging judges give every appearance of knowing so little.  A.C....

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A Downside that will never come again

 A Downside that will never come again.  Although in my youth I studied medieval history, it is only now, looking back on my time in the school  and the years when I joined the monastery in the late fifties, that...

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Is Christianity a load of fairy stories? Yes…

The people who say that Christianity is just all fairy stories have got a point.  Yes it is mostly myths and fictions.  The birth in the stable plainly is.  According to the scripture scholars, even the descriptions of Jesus’s...

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The then government will say too late now…

 Would I be right in thinking  that the politicians have no intention – and the complacent self-congratulation after Paris only confirms one’s worst fears - of averting the  climate catastrophe to which we are all so rapidly heading?  Too...

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The stable into which the Lord came…

The stable into which the Lord came is the cave of our hearts, the ox and the ass our dear pets, and the star of wonder the yet more wondrous ones in the heavens above. 

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O my deare hert young Jesu sweit…

O my deare hert young Jesu sweit, prepare thy creddil in my spreit, and I sall rock thee to my hert.  And never mair from thee depart.  And I sall praise thee evermoir with sanges sweit unti thy gloir....

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Behold a silly tender babe…

Behold a silly tender babe in freezing winter night. In homelymanger trabling lies alas a piteous sight.  The inns are full; no man will give this little pilgrim bed.  But foirced he is with silly beasts in crib to...

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That yonge child when it gan weep

That yonge child when it gan weep. With song she lulled him asleep.  That wasso sweet a melody it passed alle minstrelsy.  The nightingale sang also. O first light, brightness and everlasting sun of righteousness: come and enlighten him who...

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I pray every day for the dead including…

I pray every day for the dead I have known including our dead animals.  How I miss the dear Doge.  How he enjoyed outwitting the old fool.  In the end we had to have him put down and how...

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O Key f David

There is no rose of such vertu, as is the rose that bear Jesu. Alleluia. For in this rose was contained heaven and earth in little space.  Res miranda.  By that rose we may well see, there be one...

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