Posts Tagged: This Side and Beyond

A mon père

Pierre Krebs
8 mai 1921 – 7 août 2015

The longing for something eternal

From a conversation between Ulrik Alver Solli and Erik Varden O.C.S.O

– Do we sufficiently recognise the need for spiritual realities in today’s society?
–I don’t believe so. And the older I get, the more it is my rational conviction that we don’t. The human being carries something like a seed of eternity. This can be s source of frustration, even pain, in people – this fact of carrying, albeit unconsciously, the longing for something eternal.
– How can this be remedied?
– Primarily, I’d say, by recognising that I have in me something that will not be satisfied by anything immediate, that spurs me on to extend my existence in such a way that it will reach the dimensions of my longing. It is about recognising that I carry a thirst for boundlessness that will not be slaked by a one-click purchase from Amazon.

Remembrance

All Saints’ and All Souls’

Cambridge American cemetery

Saint Andrew’s Church, Chesterton

Saint Luke

Luke
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Luke is the living pillar of our healing,
A lowly ox, the servant of the four,
We turn his page to find his face revealing
The wonder, and the welcome of the poor.

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Malcolm Guite

Find the full sonnet here :
A Sonnet for Saint Luke's day.

Gol stavkirke, Norway photo Margot Krebs Neale

Breakfast with a ghost chair

Be the Church you want

St Stephen's, Gloucester Road, London, November 2019

Walking in to a Church was so easy

#betheChurchyouwant

One world at a time

The world would come to an end, as it always does, one world at a time.

James Marcus