- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd (20 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843510979
- ISBN-13: 978-1843510970
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 919,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'The connection between psychic pain and religious ritual in Catholicism is done very beautifully. More than any other, this was very personal and profoundly moving.' Michael Harding"
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A wonderful walk through the story of Moriarty's childhood growing up on a small farm in north Kerry, and his lifelong engagement with the traditional Catholic sacraments, taking as his point of departure Philip Larkin's poem "Church Going" - a richly meditative essay of extraordinary resonance that begins with a visit to the island of Inis Fallen on Loch Leine: "People say we live in a time of ritual deprivation. Not so people of my age born into Christian Ireland. From three days' of age, I was inducted onto the Christian sacramental road, and that journey I rehearse in this book."
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John Moriarty led a hard but courageous life seeking a true spiritual vision. To some he may have seemed just another wild crazy man staring at the stars, but to me what he had to say has the ring of hard won truth.
Serious Sounds tells of his own spiritual journey through the Christian Sacraments, all the way from birth and baptism to death and the last rites. He draws on memories of his childhood in County Kerry in Ireland where the sacraments for many were the centre of everyday life.
But this is not another backward looking conservative defence of the Catholic Church. John Moriarty was passionate about searching deep down into the inner realities of life, of creation, of our human existence on this planet floating in a seemingly infinite universe. In his journey through the sacraments he draws on his profound knowledge not only of Christianity but also of the deep wisdom of many spiritual/mythical traditions throughout the world.
Serious Sounds tells of his own spiritual journey through the Christian Sacraments, all the way from birth and baptism to death and the last rites. He draws on memories of his childhood in County Kerry in Ireland where the sacraments for many were the centre of everyday life.
But this is not another backward looking conservative defence of the Catholic Church. John Moriarty was passionate about searching deep down into the inner realities of life, of creation, of our human existence on this planet floating in a seemingly infinite universe. In his journey through the sacraments he draws on his profound knowledge not only of Christianity but also of the deep wisdom of many spiritual/mythical traditions throughout the world.
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