Thank you for visiting Sherlock’s Home.
This blog has been part of my life for a number of years but in more recent times I have neglected it a little. I am hoping to return to its rooms and shelter and hope to keep it updated regularly.
The door is open and you are all welcome to come in and stay a while!
Vincent
Memories run deep
During the week, I had the joy of spending a bit of time with the priests of St Patrick's Missionary Society (Kiltegan). I was there for a Day of Recollection. After lunch I walked to the cemetery and spent a bit of time there. I found names I knew: Ciaran Needham,...
Ashes to ashes
Another chance! It's Ash Wednesday 2018, Mass just celebrated and crosses traced on foreheads. It always strikes me when I see people coming to Holy Communion a little later in the Mass, how the ashes, blessed and placed have settled and the shape of the Cross...
From nowhere … maybe not
Where do you live?
"Homeless Jesus" - a statue in Glasgow It was a straightforward question enough. So too, the answer: “Come and see”. They did and “spent the rest of that day with him”. No mention of where they went, what they did or who they met. But whatever all that entailed, it...
An open letter as a year closes
Dear 2017, In a few short hours, you will be replaced by 2018. All over the world, as midnight finds its hour in a variety of time-zones, people will embrace, kiss and wish each other well. Others will be at home alone and just remember other days. Some will be in...
"Raised on songs and stories"
Much of my life has been shaped by songs and stories. I like words when they taie us to a better place. My wish is that this be a place for kind and meaningful words.
“That today, we would listen to his voice”