This hike started at a car park by the A832, 7 km (4.3 miles) from the base of the hill. Reaching the latter required about an hour-long walk along a narrow tarmac road, initially through the woodland, then through the open space. Soon after I’d started walking I took off my jacket, then my winter cap and gloves, finally the fleece…
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A few weeks ago, on Trinity Sunday, in my sermon I used a comparison of multiple identities of myself to illustrate that aspect of our faith: one God in three Persons. When I was delivering that sermon at Masses, I realised that some people might have read that as my stance regarding the referendum on Scottish independence – which was…
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For the last two Sundays, some of you spotted two unfamiliar boys serving at Mass. They came here with their parents, friends of mine, and the whole family visited Scotland for the first time. They hadn’t known much about the people living here so they had had some mildly stereotypical views of Scots and of the country. But once they…
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During a recent visit of my friends to Scotland I managed to take them to a few interesting places, and a couple of times I remembered to take my camera with me (though most of the time I didn’t).
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Recent weeks in particular have shown us how short the media’s attention span is. Any time a new story has appeared, the previous one has been virtually abandoned. The war in Syria, that once dominated the TV screens and front pages, was replaced by the turmoil in Ukraine, which was then replaced by the takeover of swathes of Iraq by…