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olmlargs
Mar 26, 20243 min read
The Light Shines in the Darkness... (John 1:5)
I'd never really understood why the Church only 'Keeps Watch' on Holy Thursday untill midnight, when we know from Holy Scripture that...
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olmlargs
Dec 31, 202313 min read
Happiness - 2023 Review
I always take my annual retreat reflections seriously. On retreat this summer in Durham, I was deep in thought one day, walking along the...
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olmlargs
Aug 17, 202316 min read
Durham Retreat August 2023
Solemnity of The Assumption, 15th August, 2023 I've been given my vocation mission, I've made Private Dedication vows of Poverty,...
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olmlargs
Apr 2, 202310 min read
Ninevah?
So… last week Fr Hans Zollner resigned from the Vatican Independent Safeguarding Commission and in his resignation statement he appeared...
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olmlargs
Jan 8, 202321 min read
Epiphany! How to Discern a Vocation...
As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Epiphany, I thought I would take this opportunity to write a wee summary of my vocation discernment...
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olmlargs
Dec 16, 20223 min read
God Bless The Bodleian!
A massive thank you to Oxford Universities Bodleian Library, for helping to locate a fascinating article from 'The Gentleman's' magazine,...
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olmlargs
Oct 2, 20224 min read
"Love the Lord your God ... with all your mind", (Mark 12:30)
To mark Creation Sunday, I thought I'd write a wee blog about loving God with all our mind, as the Gosple of Mark puts it, (Mark 12:30)....
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olmlargs
Sep 9, 202211 min read
An Island of Clerkenwell - Notes on the Chapel and Well of Our Lady of Muswell: Connolly & Bloom
I contacted the Centre for Catholic Studies, at Durham University, trying to track down the only book I could find on-line about Our Lady...
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olmlargs
Sep 4, 20223 min read
Thanksgiving Retreat - God always stands on the poor man's side
God does nothing by accident and so it was wonderfull to end this years retreat with thanksgiving all night Eucharistic Adoration vigil,...
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olmlargs
Aug 31, 20223 min read
Annual Retreat - Durham Reflections
My annual retreat this year will be spent between a few different places. I've just spent a blessed 4 days in Durham! Am on train...
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olmlargs
Aug 21, 20225 min read
The Miracles of Our Lady of Muswell
In a previous blog, I gave you the Novena Of Our Lady of Muswell, which I personally pray perpetually. I have found this Novena to be so...
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olmlargs
Aug 2, 20223 min read
Night Adoration Vigils
Wouldn't it be wonderfull if God could look down on earth, on the First Friday of the month and see the all the lights of Catholic parish...
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olmlargs
Jun 26, 20222 min read
Our Lady of Muswell's connection to Largs
As my earlier blog post explained, Scottish King Malcolm IV, was the first person to receive a miraculous healing from the Holy Well of...
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olmlargs
Jun 17, 20222 min read
A Charism in Stained Glass
St Mungo's Passionist Catholic Church, in Glasgow, Scotland, has a beautifull stained glass window in the top right corner, where the...
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olmlargs
Jun 17, 20222 min read
Our Lady of Muswell Novena
I found a copy of Our Lady of Muswell's Novena, in the Novice classroom of the monastic ...
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olmlargs
Jun 13, 20229 min read
Life Long Formation
In the Catholic Faith there are three recognised Vocations. The word Vocation comes from the Latin, 'Vocatio', meaning 'summons'. In...
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olmlargs
May 29, 20224 min read
My Vocation Journey
I was a typical London N.H.S worker Bee, in a job I loved, using my free time to travel the world, enjoy big city culture and a full...
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olmlargs
May 16, 20222 min read
Our Lady of Muswell Holy Well and Pilgrim Shrine History
In the reign of King Stephen, 1153, Richard de Belmeis II, Bishop of London, granted a Monastic Congregation of Benedictine Nuns, who's...
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olmlargs
May 16, 20224 min read
Eucharistic Adoration
The Catechism of The Catholic Church states, (Part 4, Section One, Chp 1, Art 3, 2628): "Adoration is the first attitude of man...
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olmlargs
May 16, 20226 min read
Balancing St Benedict's Monastic Divine Office with a Job
To create and m Just as Eucharistic Adoration is an extension of the point of Consecration in Holy Mass, so too the Divine Office, or the...
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