Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦

A De La Mennais Brother sharing the love of Christ: musician, cyclist, film + tech geek, Saints fan. What's your passion?

[Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦 @bro_james]

The @urbandictionary says "Lilac sky" = "A moment of pure completion. A moment of complete satisfaction... when you feel as though the world is at rest." May your Christmas be a "lilac sky" day, despite the worries + fears of today's world. May the Christ child bring you peace.

[Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦 @bro_james]

@stephenkeeler 🤣

[Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦 @bro_james]

Went for a lovely 11 mile hike with Frère Henri a couple of days ago, going out the front door of our community house and setting off on a loop through the hills surrounding our small town of Châteaulin.

[Ralph Vaughan Williams Society #RVW @RVWSociety]

A few photos from the recent English Music Festival, held for the first time at Dartington Hall. Including a programme called “Ursula and Ralph”, in which songs by Vaughan Williams (and a few by other composers with words by Ursula) were loosely woven into a biographical dialogue

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

Antonio Banderas, representing the world
of culture, was on cloud nine to chat with Pope Leo after his speech.

To the applause of the packed giant sports and event arena in Madrid, Banderas affirmed:

„The relationship between the Catholic Church and art has not only been fruitful: it has been decisive.”

„We are not afraid to say that the Church has been the greatest producer of art in the history of humanity.”

„At the heart of this creative impulse is the one who transcends centuries, styles, and cultures, and who has certainly been the most represented figure in the history of art: Jesus Christ,” Banderas said tonight.

In a meeting that seeks to answer what does it mean to the world today to „Lift up your eyes” - the theme of the trip to Spain, Banderas said that „Art must be an alternative to all forms of violence.”

„Just as Christ himself did, the artist must act with courage and not abandon being a critical voice to society, to art itself, and to religion itself.”

Video: Vatican Media

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

Antonio Banderas tells Pope Leo that the Catholic Church has been the greatest producer of art in the history of humanity.

[Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦 @bro_james]

@netflix @denisohare Mother!

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

Lavender fields in Provence.

[Bodmin Hermit @TheCarceri]

PONDER
The desert is the empty human heart crying our for meaning, love and God and we are all pilgrims.
I also heard that the low moaning of the wilderness wind is the desert wishing it was a meadow.
Carl Jung wrote, 'The central neurosis of our times is emptiness.'

Sahara

[Bodmin Hermit @TheCarceri]

Peace, Perfect Peace....
https://t.co/vrI8mWDkcS

[Bodmin Hermit @TheCarceri]

MORNING PRAYER:
Lord of Life, may today bring…
paths to discover, possibilities to choose,
people to encounter, peace to possess,
promises to fulfil, pardon to accept
and a Presence to proclaim.

Jer 6:16

[Sister Walburga @SisterWalburga]

Happy Pentecost everyone! 🔥 🙏

[Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦 @bro_james]

@stephenkeeler Just the one 😉. Saving the other for a long drive to visit the community of my fellow English Brother in the south-west of France (Ciboure) tomorrow.

[Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦 @bro_james]

@stephenkeeler Thought of you as I enjoyed some Brets here in Finistère today, Stephen 😉.

[Bodmin Hermit @TheCarceri]

FAITH:
We trust that beyond absence there is a presence.
That beyond pain there can be healing.
That beyond brokenness there can be wholeness.
That beyond anger there may be peace.
That beyond hurting there may be forgiveness.
That beyond silence there may be the Word.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

And magically nobody is talking about them anymore.

Ted Lieu on camera: "The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children."

A sitting congressman said this on the record.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

This is so beautiful on so many levels. Colbert has said he can’t listen to “Band on the Run” because that song was popular the year his father and brothers were killed in a plane crash. Now, here he is with Sir Paul, closing out his show with his beautiful family.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

A councillor in the Irish city of Cork has called for a statue to be built of the mosquito which bit Oliver Cromwell, causing his eventual death from malaria.

[Bro. Jim Hayes 🇺🇦 @bro_james]

@stephenkeeler So, no Brittany then? 🙁