Letters from Quotidia
For lovers of music, poetry, and the Crack-that most Irish of nouns. Quotidia is that space, that place, where ordinary people lead ordinary lives. But where, from time to time, they encounter the extraordinary.
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Letters from Quotidia Hologram 10 (opens the original)
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Ordinary Time In the Catholic Church refers to the ordinal numbers 1st-33rd or 34th which identifies the longest season of the liturgical year Its colour is green, denoting growth. It follows the mission of Jesus during the three years of his public ministry. More
Letters from Quotidia Hologram 9 (opens the original)
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Bertie McKnight- he was the mandolin player of the group- died last week and, oh, by the way, did you hear that Tony Fitzgerald-Tony was our main singer- had passed away up in Queensland just before Christmas last year? Uh, no, I didn’t know, I replied. And before I could help myself, I continued- I suppose this means if we intend to get the band back together again, it’ll have to be as a trio!More
Letters from Quotidia Hologram 8 (opens the original)
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I am reminded that unsung heroes are everywhere- except of course within the frenetic media circuses that infest our communications channels where blowhards and bloviators bray and bellow, elbow and belly one another aside as they jostle to occupy the limelight at the top of the heap. More
Letters from Quotidia Hologram 7 (opens the original)
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We often have images of groups of chanting people being set upon by wild beasts in the Colosseum as the Roman crowd roars its approval and do you perhaps see, in your mind’s eye, lines of screaming human torches blazing along the Appian Way as punishment for the dastardly sect’s setting fire to Rome. More
Letters from Quotidia Hologram 6 (opens the original)
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Gradually, I learned to make a shining virtue out of dire necessity by quoting a Catholic saint who said, of any difficulty faced, this is the path to heaven, and I even found a quiet pride in doing the various tasks well and mastering new skills as I went along.More
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