Month: December 2024

Nativity

December 20th 2024

Detail from nativity scene exhibited at Sant’ Andrea delle Valle, Rome, December 2024 When I went Rome recently, the Basilica of Sant’ Andrea delle Valle was on my list of churches to visit because a few weeks before I had

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XOMATOK’S STAIRWAYS

December 14th 2024

  https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/10/xomatok-lima-staircases/ I was looking for something joyful and I found this image.  I showed it to some young men and one said, “It’s like acid!” Another said “It’s LGBTQ!”  I showed it to some mature religious women and they

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AUCTION OF TALENTS ANF GIFTS

December 13th 2024

  The auction took  place at 1pm on Sunday 15th December.   RESULTS  TALENTS FOR AUCTION (1) Wine tasting for up to 8 people MR. Minimum £125  SOLD TO ONE BIDDER £150 A wine tasting at home or at work

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Gijón’s St John of the Cross

December 7th 2024

“St John of the Cross”, Francisco Antonio Gijón, c.1675, National Gallery of Art Washington.  I saw this polychrome wooden sculpture of St John of the Cross in the exhibition “The Sacred made Real” a number of years ago in London. 

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Edinburgh Catholic Chaplaincy

The Catholic Chaplaincy serves the students and staff of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University and Queen Margaret University.

The Catholic Chaplaincy is also a parish of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (the Parish of St Albert the Great) and all Catholic students and staff are automatically members of this parish.

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