Category: Herb O’Driscoll

By Herbert O’Driscoll

For four years – 1941 to 1945 – I was in a boarding school founded in 1673. Many years later, when we took our family to see the school, one of them remarked that it had not changed much since that date! However, my memory of it is not an unhappy one. There were periods of homesickness of course, especially in the early months, but, as with most things in life, they passed and one entered into the life of the school with one’s peers. Continue reading “The Company of Heaven”

Herbert O’Driscoll

All Saints. 2016

There is an old hymn, rather out of fashion now, that tells a great truth. It tells us that saints do not merely live in stained glass windows, and that you can meet a saint anywhere and at any time. You just need to have an eye for one when you meet him or her. Continue reading “The Bicycle Man”

By Herbert O’Driscoll

(a reflection on Jeremiah 32: 1-15)

In the year 597 BCE the most powerful military machine in the world of that time attacked Jerusalem. During the months leading up to that attack a single voice dominated the discourse of that small society. His name was Jeremiah.
Continue reading “The Man Who Invested in the Future”