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Wednesday, 1 January 2025
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About Me
- Barry
- Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom
- I am a retired Consulting IT Specialist. I have been married to Julia for 50 yearsrs and we are blessed with four children; David, Andrew, Lawrie and Hélèna. Not forgetting the "other half's"; Gaew married to Andrew, Lawrie's partner Emma and Hélèna's husband Sam. In addition we have two grandchildren - Henry Thomas, son of Lawrie and Emma. Henry was eight in April 2021 and his sister, Georgia Rose, born on 29 December 2017. I am ordained as a Permanent Deacon in the RC Church - date of ordination 8 June 2013 so am now in my ninth year of ministry.
My Blog List
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Adore Him! - Homily at Our Lady of the Valleys for Epiphany 2025. I know something you don’t know! Is it a taunt? Is it a brag? Or is it a problem? St Paul is writing t...
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POLL: Reform Predicted to Win 120 Seats - Reform is predicted to seize 120 seats at the next general election, leaving Labour with 278 MPs, according to an MRP mega-poll by Stonehaven for *The i....1 day ago
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On the Tenth Day of Christmas... comedy - During my early-to-late teenage years, I spent a lot of time listening to music and comic albums with friends. Back then, it was a great joy to have friend...
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Calm - I took advantage of the recent high pressure during the holiday to row down the river, it was relatively early around 8.30 the only people about were do...
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Protestant churches face a day of reckoning with North’s inquiry into mother and baby homes - A Northern Ireland investigation into mother and baby homes will bring the conduct of Protestant churches properly under the spotlight for the first time...
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A Reflection on the Incarnation - From *The Lord*, by Romano Guardini: THE Christmas liturgy includes these beautiful verses from the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Wisdom: "For while...
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Father Reese and Tired Old Tropes About Deacons - INTRODUCTION Jesuit Father Thomas Reese has, once again, wheeled out some tired old myths and misperceptions about the diaconate. He seems to go through th...4 months ago
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Learning from Yom Kippur - FIND forgiveness. There's an apt phrase. To find forgiveness, we must seek it out. We must be humble enough to admit our own broken humanity. To realize th...3 years ago
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DW: Daily Office – Portal Podcast - Portal Magazine · Lent 1 This week I contributed to the new podcast of The Portal Magazine, the monthly online … Continue reading →3 years ago
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NEW BLOG URL - PLEASE BOOKMARK http://www.barrywhytestorage.blog/ - http://www.barrywhytestorage.blog/ Please note that IBM is sunsetting this blog website, as of 1st January 2020 this blog will vanish off the internet! ...5 years ago
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She doesn’t support women’s ordination — but thinks it’s time for women to be cardinals - From The New Yorker, a profile of Lucetta Scaraffia, editor of the Vatican’s magazine, Women Church World: Scaraffia is, by and large, quite conservative: ...6 years ago
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The Last Post - Teresa Shute 5/12/1949 – 10/4/2018 From July 2013 until the end of January this year I placed at least one post here every single day of the year. Every da...6 years ago
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Cara Budidaya Ikan Nila - informasi *Budidaya Ikan Nila* yang kami sampaikan dibawah ini sebagai pengetahuan anda semua dalam berbudidaya. Semoga dapat bermanfaat dan sebagai motiv...
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The Helplessness of God - an Advent Reflection - The bedroom in my houseboat has french doors that open onto the water. This morning I awoke to the sound of a swan approaching in flight. The power of t...
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Scottish Flora and Fauna - And here is some of the wonderful Flora and Fauna we saw Slightly overexposed orchid Look close and you'll see an otter... David Attenborough (!) Puffins...
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iOS 7 Design Consistency: Button Colors - While iOS 7 brought many welcome changes to Apple’s mobile operating system, one category of change that has not set well with many developers and users is...11 years ago
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Silence and Solitude of the Desert Fathers and Thomas Merton - *Introduction* We are all solitaries even if we do not realize it. It is basic and inevitable to being human, for it fundamentally as an individual that ...17 years ago
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