Historical Setting: The Great Skellig in an unknown time About sin: I am sitting here on the wall of the steps to the monastery offering the monks a Q and A. I thought they would be asking about my friend Jesus, but I find they are most concerned about sin and holy retribution. I intendedContinue reading “#83.12 Thursday, August 27, 2026”
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#83.11 Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Historical Setting: The Great Skellig in an unknown time In all my redundant healings, rising over and over again into life always into future times, I’ve never actually discussed my circumstances with anyone but my closest friends and family. Now, I offered it as a homily on the “signs” in the gospel and the questionsContinue reading “#83.11 Wednesday, August 26, 2026”
#83.8 Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Historical Setting: The Great Skellig in an unknown time It’s left for me, to preach to these monks of the Skellig and explain myself as I am called a “sign.” “All of Creation, the earth, the beauty, the love and our sacred ability to touch and to be touched are all signs — onContinue reading “#83.8 Wednesday, August 19, 2026”
#83.7 Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Historical Setting: The Great Skellig in an unknown time Surely, they must know the gospel here; probably it is committed to memory many times over. For them, it wouldn’t be a strange story I have to tell. I could understand this amazement if they were Pagan and the earthly signs of Jesus were not alreadyContinue reading “#83.7 Tuesday, August 18, 2026”
#83.4 Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Historical Setting: The Great Skellig in an unknown time I speak the Spirit of the familiar prayer aloud with Brother Lugh but not using the words of practiced repetitions; and he objects. Just now, I prefer thoughtful words to empty phrases so I continue in disorder. I say, “Guide us wandering into the thinContinue reading “#83.4 Tuesday, August 11, 2026”
#83.3 Thursday, August 6, 2026
Historical Setting: The Great Skellig in an unknown time Brother Lugh and I are speaking of his grief at the loss of his father. He says, “I was supposed to leave my old life behind. But it was my father who sponsored me here, when Abbott McTyre was gathering monks. And now I’ve learnedContinue reading “#83.3 Thursday, August 6, 2026”
#82.5 Thursday, July 9, 2026
Historical Setting: The Great Skellig in an unknown time Brother Timothy’s sister tells me of Saint Brendan here on this Great Skellig. Discussing signs and miracles and we discover a twinkle of humor in the distinction between a saintly miracle and a simple sign of God’s gracious abundance. Apparently, a miracle has furniture. Her humorContinue reading “#82.5 Thursday, July 9, 2026”
#79.9 Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Historical Setting: Jarrow, 794 C.E. Comparing the things in our lives with others is always a false gauge for happiness. Envy and greed are closely linked to each other. It seems all these seven dwarves of “deadly sins” are false paths to love for self and neighbor, and these things leave us spiritually hollow, notContinue reading “#79.9 Tuesday, April 21, 2026”
#79.4 Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Historical Setting: Jarrow, 794 C.E. The baker and I are waiting to meet with the abbot in the monk’s chapel of St. Paul. Here the window is leaded with pieces of colored glass. The places in this room where shadows would nestle are not shadows at all, but little patches of dancing light, though theContinue reading “#79.4 Wednesday, April 8, 2026”
#78.8 Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Historical Setting: Jarrow, 794 C.E. Ousbert and I return to our cells in the guest quarters. Tonight, I don’t light a candle. There is nothing I need to read and nothing else that needs to be written. I can just sit here in the darkness and sort through the shady corners of this day —Continue reading “#78.8 Wednesday, March 18, 2026”
Lazarus Ink 