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The Olden Days

Not very long ago one of our great-grandchildren asked her great-grandmother a question that intrigued me. She said...
Herbert O'Driscoll
October 25, 2023
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A 21ST CENTURY PARABLE

A couple of weeks ago in the Sunday Supplement of the Victoria Times-Colonist there was a shot of a large bowl of...
Herbert O'Driscoll
October 11, 2023
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Of Rugby and the Greek New Testament

Which sounds an extraordinary linkage but trust me, dear reader. In 1951, the men of the Divinity Class in Trinity...
Herbert O'Driscoll
October 6, 2023
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GOD, WHOSE FARM IS ALL CREATION

I joined the church choir at 3pm on the first Wednesday of September 1936. When I arrived in the choir room I found...
Herbert O'Driscoll
October 4, 2023
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Night Prayer

A 'gem' from the Church of New Zealand's prayer book
Herbert O'Driscoll
September 16, 2023
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A Visitation of Voices

It was summer and the setting sun poured along the corridor as I looked for the ward he had been moved to. Len was...
Herbert O'Driscoll
September 13, 2023
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Time to Move On

It was 1938, and I was 14 and on my grandfather's farm in county Kilkenny there was a donkey. Actually there were...
Herbert O'Driscoll
September 11, 2023
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For Jenny and Ian

A reflection inspired by the passing of Jenny Birtwell, ODNW
Herbert O'Driscoll
September 7, 2023
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The Perils of Preaching Part II

I promised readers I would return with a reflection or two about the many episodes of humour one can discover in...
Herbert O'Driscoll
August 17, 2023
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TIME WARP

or How I went to hospital and got lost in the past.
Herbert O'Driscoll
July 31, 2023

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