Episodes

  • August 15; the turn of the season.

    August 15; the turn of the season.
    Aug 23 2025

    Our hearts are disconnected from the language of faith. But it's not impossible to dive into the wonderful narratives of hope that are contained in the Christian tradition and discover enormous resources for the human heart and mental well being. Today on the feast of Mary, Assumed into Heaven, or as it is called in the east, the Dormition, I'm beginning a three part meditation on the wonders of this feast. So let your rational mind relax and take hold of these lovely musings with your heart, and then ask yourself how much better you're feeling.

    This is Part One. Part Two next weekend and Part Three on the last weekend in August.

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    56 mins
  • Autumn Harvest

    Autumn Harvest
    Aug 23 2025
    Gathering Grace in old age. Going to sleep in the corner. Her soul lifted into paradise. This is not mere folklore. it's theological poetry. The children grown and gone. friends departed. the world moving on without us. Mary transforms this isolation into solitude. that fertile ground where God speaks most clearly.

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    52 mins
  • Oliver Plunkett

    Oliver Plunkett
    Aug 8 2025
    Someone suggested I do a podcast about Oliver Plunkett. And to be honest I found a lot out by doing it. In this podcast I tried to use John the Baptist as a template. John is the guy who comes before Jesus, ,appears in the wilderness and is called the forerunner in the Orthodox tradition. I recorded this a few weeks ago so it's not synched with current feast day. I'm trying to get around to making an episode on the Transfiguration soon. Maybe next weeks episode. Anyway here is Oliver for today; I hope you enjoy.

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    38 mins
  • Dzogchen Beara -

    Dzogchen Beara -
    Aug 2 2025
    It's like Skellig in a way. It's a rugged cliff on the edge of the Atlantic, and a great refuge of serenity and peace. Join me now as I look out on the Atlantic and ask myself the question, what is the meaning of a Retreat. You can notice by my voice that I was slightly under the influence of a cold, but even that didn't interfere with the powerful effect of just being there..

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    51 mins
  • Dzogchen Beara

    Dzogchen Beara
    Aug 2 2025
    It's like Skellig in a way. It's a rugged cliff on the edge of the Atlantic, and a great refuge of serenity and peace. Join me now as I look out on the Atlantic and ask myself the question, what is the meaning of a Retreat. You can notice by my voice that I was slightly under the influence of a cold, but even that didn't interfere with the powerful effect of just being there.

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    51 mins
  • In the Hush of this Prayer Room

    In the Hush of this Prayer Room
    Aug 2 2025
    I'm just back from Dzogen Beara, the Tibetan Buddhist Centre in west Cork. An oasis of serenity in this mad world. So let me begin with a prayer. And then in an hour or so I'll be dropping the weekly podcast. But this is a shared prayer. Join me. Maybe it's a new idea we could develop.

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    6 mins
  • When you were possessed by God

    When you were possessed by God
    Jul 25 2025
    Amazing to think that long ago in your childhood moments of joy and bliss that you were in fact not alone but that God was rattling your bones with ecstasy of his presence. Amazing to think that such moments are still available in memory, as portals into the timeless love of God.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Lonesome Me

    Lonesome Me
    Jul 18 2025

    This week I talk about a lonesome mood that mantles our old age. And how we cross the bridge of tears alone at the end of life. It's a sombre meditation. But fuelled by the sense of love that exists in old age. Listen in quietude and find in the dark clouds the flickering of light.


    So.....sharing three meditations in this episode. Two of them focus on love between elderly couples. The final one is about the lonesome path towards death. That final one is a solitary journey no matter how much we are loved. It's a bridge we cross alone, leaving loved ones behind. But maybe that final bridge is a journey into something beautiful, a relationship of so much love that we can't comprehend it on this side of the bridge.

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    54 mins