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Post by seangladium on Jul 22, 2018 2:19:27 GMT
I was disappointed when the last time I was in Dublin that the Natural History Museum was closed for apparently much needed renovations that still haven't been entirely completed from what I have read. Admission is free of course, but it would be a shame if it closed for good due to lack of funding/maintenance. I love natural history museums; my favorite was the natural history museum in Paris in the Jardin des Plantes; it was hardly updated for modern tastes (i.e. loud interactive exhibits, video screens, etc.) and still looked like it would right out of a 19th century Jules Verne novel.
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Post by Séamus on Jul 22, 2018 6:50:30 GMT
I was disappointed when the last time I was in Dublin that the Natural History Museum was closed for apparently much needed renovations that still haven't been entirely completed from what I have read. Admission is free of course, but it would be a shame if it closed for good due to lack of funding/maintenance. I love natural history museums; my favorite was the natural history museum in Paris in the Jardin des Plantes; it was hardly updated for modern tastes (i.e. loud interactive exhibits, video screens, etc.) and still looked like it would right out of a 19th century Jules Verne novel. It was one of my favourite places in Dublin as a child, but I disliked heights then, as now, and going up the mezzanine levels always terrified me.
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Post by cato on Jul 22, 2018 10:19:08 GMT
I was disappointed when the last time I was in Dublin that the Natural History Museum was closed for apparently much needed renovations that still haven't been entirely completed from what I have read. Admission is free of course, but it would be a shame if it closed for good due to lack of funding/maintenance. I love natural history museums; my favorite was the natural history museum in Paris in the Jardin des Plantes; it was hardly updated for modern tastes (i.e. loud interactive exhibits, video screens, etc.) and still looked like it would right out of a 19th century Jules Verne novel. It was closed for a long period for structural repairs but was open last week when I passed by. It's a great venue to spent an hour in especially on a winter afternoon and has kept its' Victorian character. I suspect funds were never allocated to modernise it. Thankfully. On the subject of Jules Verne the Royal Irish Academy printed an Irish themed novel of his a few years back. It didn't have the same impact as his Science Fiction . Has anyone read it?
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Post by Séamus on Aug 10, 2018 11:22:57 GMT
I'm sure most of the people 'here' are not wild about ecumenical services, especially the more secular type, but somehow it seemed nice to see the Duke of Cambridge and Mrs May participating in a WWI memorial in Amiens Cathedral. I wonder what they felt surrounded by eight centuries of Gallic Roman Catholicism?
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Post by Séamus on Aug 17, 2018 11:33:45 GMT
The Reuters News roundup included a few nice images of Assumption Feastday celebrations around the world, including firecrackers in Nicaragua and fireworks in Malta.
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Post by Séamus on Aug 22, 2018 12:15:42 GMT
Reuters also included an image of the St Stephen(of Hungary)'s day fireworks over what appears to be the famous Szent István Bazilika (Budapest). I'm curious what day the Hungarians usually celebrate it, in the '62 missal it's early September. For some strange reason our chaplain posts all his postcards from Hungary every time he's in Europe, regardless of which countries he's been in or bought them. It's one of those mysterious things.
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Post by Séamus on Aug 30, 2018 12:24:14 GMT
I noticed the two stamps released by AnPost to commemorate the papal visit and World Meeting of Families. It was good enough that they chose to show a three generation family on one, with traditional man-woman marriage, considering some of the voices wanting to push for a spotlight on alternatives. Another image came up of a stamp issued a few years ago by St Vincent and the Grenadines- to commemorate Francis meeting Obama!
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 30, 2018 12:33:26 GMT
They are getting a lot of flak for it on Facebook.
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Post by Séamus on Sept 8, 2018 8:10:51 GMT
As a counterweight to THE NUN being shown on cinemas, it was uplifting to read an article about a Swiss Little Sister of Jesus this week, Sr Miriam de Jesus, who returned to Switzerland in 2016 after fifty years in Afghanistan. "the Little Sisters, in fact remained in the Afghan territory both during the Russian occupation of 1979 and during the civil war which started in 1992 moving from Kabul solely to work in refugee camps of Jalaladad. Sister Mariam explains that, even after the arrival of the Taliban in 1996, they chose to continue to serve in hospitals, wearing the burqa to go unnoticed:'when they asked me if it was difficult to live with the war,I reply that it depended on the day. Sometimes I was scared but during all these years I felt strong because God never abandoned me'" A nice continuation to Mr Maolsheachlann's book's account of Bl Charles deFoucauld, inspiration of the Little Sisters founding.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Oct 10, 2018 9:53:38 GMT
Asher's bakery have won their case against the gay rights activist who decided that one particular bakery (which just happened to be run by Christians) had to bake his "Support Gay Marriage" cake. I wonder why he wanted a cake with such a message? Presumably it wasn't for himself, so who was it for? www.rte.ie/news/2018/1010/1002126-belfast_gay_cake/
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Post by cato on Oct 10, 2018 11:45:24 GMT
I was talking to a health inspector recently who told me they often receive malicious calls but they still have to investigate, but they do bear in mind they are being used in an attempt to settle a grudge. I wonder why courts don't dismiss cases where individuals go out of their way to be insulted or be discriminated against?
Courts are meant to administer justice and not become the arm of a politically correct lobby group. I am glad the UK supreme court made a sensible decision on this cake case.Some of the people who take these cases are malicious and want to damage their enemies, in this case financially, over a matter of conscience.
Expect to see future cases in Irish courts once the Harris abortion bill restricts the constitutional rights around conscience and free assembly. His proposed bill is one of the most extreme laws anywhere.
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Post by Séamus on Oct 20, 2018 9:47:57 GMT
Reuters News included a photo of the annual Señor deLos Milagros (Christ of the miracles) procession in Lima. They weren't afraid to shows the thousands that could fit in the photo. Apparently this Crucifixion image was painted, by tradition, by a slave who had been shipped from Africa. Shows that this isn't the only generation where evangelization has worked both directions.
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Post by Séamus on Nov 30, 2018 5:43:02 GMT
Happy St Andrew's day. I'm sure it's a positive that there are still church-based holidays and national days in the world. A media group recently listed various national holidays and what they meant. Quite a few,I think all in Latin America, are Marian feastdays. The note for Chile gave a good explanation of their National day of Our Lady of Mt.Carmel, mentioning the original hermits in the Holy Land. I used to buy some Tunnock's tea cakes today but the local council discontinued our suburban shuttle, so ,no Scottish driver to greet now.....
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Post by cato on Nov 30, 2018 9:59:49 GMT
Love Tunnocks Tea cakes with a nice cup of tea.
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Post by Stephen on Dec 18, 2018 12:47:43 GMT
Christmas tide approaches. 10 days off from work
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