At the sunrise I started scaling the north-east ridge of Geal Charn – or I thought so. I realised my mistake too high and too late – I’d been climbing Creagan Mor, the northern neighbouring hill. Between me and Geal Charn was a very steep and narrow gorge of Allt Beul an Sporran; returning to the bottom of the hill…
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For the last couple of weekends millions of people in the UK have been watching entertaining programmes like ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ or ‘The X-Factor’. I’ve been doing something similar, but I haven’t watched any of the mentioned, as I personally find them rather boring. For the last three Sunday nights I’ve been following ‘Andrew Marr’s History of the World’. Presented…
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Featureless hills and spells of bad weather; not much more can be said about this route. However, I climbed two Munros and fortunately I will not have to return there. And I field-tested my brand new rucksack. So, over all not a bad day off. [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1WfrYY6puXO1dUfNTkN-aku3JOYY&w=100%&h=600]
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Some time ago I was approached by a group of several young women, rather virulently asking me why the Church foolishly maintains its stance with regard to marriage as one inseparable, life-long lasting bond, and why it doesn’t allow divorced and remarried people to take communion. They were so agitated because their children would soon make their First Communions, but their mothers…
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She has always taken her faith seriously. As a teenager and then a university student she was involved in parish youth groups. Once she met a wonderful man and they fell in love. He had no religious background whatsoever, but she strongly hoped to lead him to faith in God. With that hope she decided to move in with him.…