The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters My rating: 4 of 5 stars The second to last volume in The Cadfael Chronicles is another wonderfully engaging and crafted story. With plots and subplots, characters old and new, the coming of flood and felon to Shrewsbury, and to the Abbey of St Peter and St Paul, provides… Continue reading Review: The Holy Thief
Month: December 2016
Review: The Summer Of The Danes
The Summer Of The Danes by Ellis Peters My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was an unusual volume in The Cadfael Chronicles in that the murder - there's always a murder! - was not central to the storyline. Indeed, the murder was just barely tangential to the story, which was focussed not in the… Continue reading Review: The Summer Of The Danes
Review: The Potter’s Field
The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another wonderful tale from the pen of Ellis Peters drawing on the life and times of the medieval monastic sleuth known as Brother Cadfael. An unexplained death is, as we've come to expect, at the centre of this particular story, yet the twists… Continue reading Review: The Potter’s Field
Review: The Heretic’s Apprentice
The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another wonderful volume in the ongoing Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series which in this volume deals tangentially with one those aspects of Church history - the allegation and prosecution of heresy - which is both a blight on the life of the Church… Continue reading Review: The Heretic’s Apprentice
Facing Which Way Now?
This afternoon I managed to find some time to start perusing the latest edition of the Worship journal, a bimonthly journal published out of St John’s Abbey, Collegeville. The journal is currently celebrating its 90th year of publication and always contains some interesting articles. The current edition, the November edition of Volume 90, contained a… Continue reading Facing Which Way Now?
Review: The Confession Of Brother Haluin
The Confession Of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters My rating: 4 of 5 stars More than just your typical Cadfael medieval murder mystery, this volume in the ongoing series of The Cadfael Chronicles also features a storyline of the recognition of wrong, of conversion, and salvation. And it is this part of the storyline that… Continue reading Review: The Confession Of Brother Haluin
Zeal For The Liturgy
Zeal for the promotion and restoration of the liturgy is rightly held to be a sign of the providential dispositions of God in our time, a movement of the Holy Spirit in his Church. Today it is a distinguishing mark of the Church's life, indeed of the whole tenor of contemporary religious thought and action.… Continue reading Zeal For The Liturgy
Lead Lives Worthy of the Lord
"In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. You have heard of this hope before in… Continue reading Lead Lives Worthy of the Lord
But Mummy!!!
The last week of Christ had rushed into the life of the young mother, too busy minding her three and five year olds to even think about Christmas shopping. But the mandatory ritual had to be faced, and she had no option but to brave the energy-sapping heat and the maddening crowds, and inevitably with… Continue reading But Mummy!!!
Review: The Hermit Of Eyton Forest
The Hermit Of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews
