Month: September 2015

Carry around your own pet bird with this black bird brooch. Use any patterned material you like for the bird wing. If you’re pinning the brooch to a favourite coat or jumper, choose colours to coordinate your clothes. Make a different brooch for each season of the year, choosing colours to complement the seasons. An…

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Dear Editor, The National Eucharistic Congress begins at 10am on a Saturday and ends about 5pm Sunday. That leaves a lot of things for visitors to do. But is Knock the wrong location? Knock is basically a place for day visits only, since it has only one hotel, and that of 21 bedrooms, i.e. catering…

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Dear Editor, It is encouraging to hear that parishioners across Ireland are making plans to welcome refugees from North Africa and the Middle East, and encouraging too to hear of bishops attempting to coordinate this response. Unfortunately, you report the Department of Justice as saying that a mere 520 migrants will have refugee status, with…

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Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter your Soul by Bill Hybels  (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99) The author is an American minister, but what he recommends in this little book has universal application. Though couched in the language of modern self-help, at the heart of what he puts forward is a recognition of the importance of making…

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