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THIS year, the lectionary follows Mark’s Gospel and gives us Easter silence: a text ending in mid-sentence, on news told by an angel to grieving women that Christ is risen. In the Book of Kells, ...
I think the Book of Kells will be a brilliant reminder of those efforts. I’ll let you know. Mike Haynes taught journalism at Amarillo College from 1991 to 2016 and has written for the Faith ...
But snakes can also represent healing, wisdom, and prudence: “Be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves” (Matthew 10.16). The snake that sloughs off its skin each year indicates redemption and ...
Monks created an illuminated Bible of astonishing beauty sometime between the 6th and 8th centuries. It’s one of the most cherished masterpieces in Ireland, writes Martha Kearney.
It has been called the most beautiful book ever written. Its name: The Book of Kells. Kells was a village in Ireland where dedicated scribes living in the Monastery of Kells painstakingly copied ...
The Book of Kells is now on display in a new state-of-the-art case at ... Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The selected pages for the opening are from the Gospel of St Matthew, of the Virgin ...
The Book of Kells is Ireland’s greatest cultural treasure and one of the world’s most famous medieval manuscripts. But it also holds a mystery. The International Catholic News Weekly.
The Book of Kells is a late-eighth century illustrated copy of the four gospels of the New Testament, traditionally associated with the affiliated monasteries of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of ...
The preacher who desires practical helps and outlines will find this book of great aid. Another recommended work is by a Lutheran scholar, R. C. Lenski, Interpretation of St. Matthew’s Gospel ...
Sir, – The notion that the Book of Kells was started in Iona and finished in Kells (An Irishman's Diary, February 9th) is certainly a popular theory, and in diplomatic terms a highly convenient ...