Recent content by coastalwanderer

For what it's worth - and I have no idea as the background to why the different choices were made, but the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland has tended to use the words "debts" and "debtors" in its favoured translation of the Lord's Prayer.

Well, if physical addresses are what you're after, Opus Dei in the UK seem to make no secret whatsoever of where they can be contacted and found Look here, for example: Opus Dei - OPUS DEI IN BRITAIN - Centres in Britain It's also absolutely no secret that they also run one parish in London...

Not quite... In 1936 King Edward VIII abdicated because he wished to marry a divorcée - which was regarded as scandalous at the time. Which seems odd, given how the Church of England came into being... Maybe what you have in mind are cases (which have happened more recently) where people have...

As a British (indeed London - not that I live there presently) Catholic - yep, that seems like a fair and reasonably accurate portrayal from a publication not noted as being particularly friendly towards the Church. I had to sn-igg-er at the "Salvation by tweed alone" bit, but, well, I know what...

Wow, many thanks for highlighting that, Monica! That's good indeed! (A great pity it is, in many ways, that the author has just very recently retired as Bishop of Lancaster)

If this list List of basilicas in Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is to be believed (and given the number of basilice in Italy, I'd be surprised if it weren't), the Duomo at Florence is indeed a basilica. From my travels (in beloved Italy and elsewhere, erm, but mostly in beloved...

3 years? I could kind of understand that (theoretically at least) if the idea was that that way would you get through the entire cycle A-B-C of bible readings at Sunday masses. I have come across two churches that make the process take two entire years: one is the French cathedral bang in the...

Thanks, BAFRIEND, that's more helpful than you know. I am intending to start RCIA in the autumn; part of the (ridiculously lengthy) delay has been because of past parish-shopping, both when I lived in London and now where I live by the sea. Where I moved 18 months ago I seem to have really got...

You don't sound as though you are being selfish at all (as opposed to, perhaps, more isolated or questioningly introspective than is healthy). And it is far better to work through these issues, to find a resolution to them, even if it takes time, even if it takes a long time, as with St...

THE GHOST OF IDENTITY Something I just read ....I think it's a minor work of genius and there may be some stuff that might be of interest to some people here. It's a very personal kind-of biographical sort of text, of coming to adulthood, the story of one English man, who long aspired to become...

TAN Press publish a lot of good ,orthodox, and/or otherwise hard to find, or long out-of-print stuff. (For someone trying to track down a lot of Belloc's works, they should be a first port of call, among other things) My only gripe with them (and I speak as someone who works in a publishing...

(very much a north of ireland thing) THREE DAY PILGRIMAGE - Lough Derg Has anyone here ever undertaken anything like this? (This specific pilgrimage is also the topic of a series of poems, "Station Island", by Seamus Heaney) (An intense 3-day pilgrimage, fasting eating only bread & salted...

Can't go wrong with a Beaujolais I'd have thought. A Beaujolais Villages, perhaps; fairly light and "thin" in texture as reds go (so as not to overwhelm the relatively subtle tastes of lamb), but a little more substantial (and less acidic/"vinegary") than a Beaujolais Nouveau

One thing of note: It is a little bit odd that a calendar intended for Russian workers in the old Soviet Union, complete with blank lines for name, number, and shift, is shown here in English. :) That might point to it being a forgery. Of course, it could just as easily be a reproduction in...

Hmm..If time permits I'll try to answer more fully later. I went there in the summer of 2004, not exactly as a pilgrim (I have long been kind of wary of quite a few things, shall we say, to be brief, of this world, that appear to me to be associated with the Medjugorje phenomena), but as part...