Archive for the ‘Ireland’ Category

Secret of Kells in US

There is news that the animated movie The Secret of Kells will make it to American theaters. No firm dates yet. Looks like a US DVD seems sure also so it should be eventually available to everyone if we are stuck with a limited release in 2010.
Wouldn’t this we an ideal movie for Kalamazoo next year…hint, [...]

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Pentecost Adventures: Fighting Beasts

Brendan and company embarked from the Isle of Birds on Pentecost. After 40 days at sea, they began to be chased by a great sea beast. Brendan’s monks were greatly afraid of the beast but Brendan calmed them and told them to have faith in God’s protection. As the beast grew so close it began [...]

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James Christensen’s St Brendan

This is one of my favorite modern paintings of St Brendan. Modern attitudes toward Brendan come in two strains: those trying to prove it was a real voyage and those with a more whimsical take on the legend. Few today take the legend as it was intended, as a spiritual journey and example of monastic [...]

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Eastertide with Brendan & Company

Somehow an entire year has passed since I blogged on Brendan’s voyage through the church year, so here is an attempt to pick up where I left off. This time last year when we had just passed Holy Week with Brendan.
Brendan has just spent the Easter Vigil on the back of a great fish. Embarking [...]

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O’Loughlin’s Celtic Theology

Thomas O’Loughlin’s Celtic Theology: Humanity, World, and God in Early Irish Writings, Continuum, 2000.
Going through my backlog of drafts and I just realized that I never came back and finished this book review. Better late than never!
This really is quite a valuable book that dispels some common myths and gives you a real sense for [...]

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