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I rather like Dark Knight, but you could go for Dark Chicken or Fluffy Knight as something of a compromise?

thanks alex - that's helpful

hello everyone I am a 32yr old lecturer in art history and poetics living in the south west of england. despite having had a very generous and loving religious upbringing - (I have an devout catholic mother and an anglican (of the high anglo-catholic variety) priest for a father. I attended schools...

does anyone have any experience of going on a retreat (be it organised or self-initiated) to focus an extended period of time on prayer, meditation and reflection? what kind of 'places' have been visited, and from whom has guidance been sought? perhaps members have been on pilgrimage... I was tak...

hi nick - yes, this is an interesting thought, but I too feel myself erring on the 'half measures' side of things :D :D :D I don't run myself, due to damaged knees (not due to an excess of prayer I hasten to add) but have recently started to ride a bike. My motives? - to get fit, to enjoy the f...

I have read, that the reason schools and universities that are clearly associated with, and in various ways supported by Opus Dei, do not nominate such institutions as Opus Dei, is that they do not "own" them. Rather, they are the preserve of their own boards and directorate which usually ...

ollie - interesting to hear that John xxiii spoke of "opening the windows of the church". I believe JPII was known to have talked in terms of the church becoming a "house of glass"... meaning (I think) entirely transparent...

mark - interestingly enough, I was once recommended a very similar occasional prayer, "Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour, pray for me now, a sinner..."

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lynch

I too pray morning and evening as a matter of routine, but like others have said, frequently find myself engaged in 'prayer' at other points during the day. Sometimes this is because I feel the 'need' to pray, be it to ask for guidance, or to give thanks. At other times, it is because the opportunit...