Pictured above: ancient monastic cells on Skellig Michael, off the coast of Kerry, Ireland. The island was the  culminating point of an ancient pilgrimage route that ran from Palestine through Europe to Ireland.

Sunday 14th July 2019

John O'Donohue

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

'Avoid all forms of self-rejection. Acknowledge your limitations but claim your unique gifts and thereby live as an equal among equals.' Henri Nouwen. 

Our music this week features The Lord's Prayer​ in a setting by Albert Hay Malotte, sung by Andrea Bocelli and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  Click on ​Music for July.

The late John O’Donohue was an Irish poet, former Catholic priest, Hegelian philosopher and author of many books including the best-selling Anam Ċara.

​His themes of echo as the response of continuity, imagination as the ability to still see the mountain behind the mist, and absence as the transformed presence of the vanished, awaken our thinking and provide food for our spiritual journey in an increasingly hungry world. One of the lines that he loved in the New Testament was: “One day you will know as you are now known.” Click here to visit the John O' Donohue website.
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​Listen here to a beautiful hour-long interview with John O'Donohue by Krista Tippett of the Peabody Award-winning 'On Being Project', as he talks about 'The Inner Landscape of Beauty'. The interview can also be heard on the homepage of the John O'Donohue website.

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