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Dust – Creation Sunday

Dust  –  Creation Sunday

Ok so I have been reading Philip Pullman recently his Dark Materials Trilogy!  And ‘The Golden Compass’ based on the first of the books, ‘Northern Lights’ was an engaging film, however ‘Dust’ is given an altogether different status in the books and it turns out that what he calls dust in the fist book / film is really dark matter – sub-atomic particles searched for by physicists – so called experimental theology!  Yes, it’s a good read!  But I mean ordinary dust, and not the sort that clogs the vacuum or hangs around the skirting board, but the Dust...

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February

And winter is now settling in!  Though the trees have arrived, Bardsey apple among them, the ground is perhaps just soft enough to plant along with brooms and bamboo and other such tree delights.  Seeds are sprouting on the windowsill – the promise of a new bounty.

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January 14th

January 14th

Beaten only by the Steak and Ale Pie that followed it!

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Random College Entry

  • Chocolat

    There is a lent course called ‘Christ and the Chocolaterie’, having not looked at it I cannot tell if what I thought while watching the film has been said before or not… But anyway, here goes. Chocolat – a beautifully acted and scripted romantic film – but also so overtly religious, how could anything useful come of it! Ignore the Catholic rhetoric, the pompous, yet frightened town Mayor controlling both priest and people and focus rather on the tempestuous chocolaterie opened just in time for lent. The devil has come to town. The words almost cry off the screen. Yet, not the devil, but Christ in the strangers guise. It is she who gives and old woman life in her last days. She to whom the landlords wife turns when all is falling around her feet. She who re-ignites passion in a dull marriage. She who invites outsiders when no-one from the village will entertain them. She to whom all turn in their darkest moments and are transformed, (all be it with chocolate!) into lightness and life. What else was the mission of Jesus.

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