Rhys Tranter

I am delighted to say that today I accepted a role as Head of Religious Education and Chaplaincy Coordinator at St David's Catholic College. I joined the college as a pastoral tutor four years ag...

https://rhystranter.com/2023/12/14/a-new-role/

In late August, Jenn and I attended the Green Man Festival in Wales, UK. While representing the Fashion Department of the University of South Wales, Jenn, her colleague Emma, and several of their...

https://rhystranter.com/2023/08/26/fashion-sustainability-green-man-festival-2023/

In July and August, I accompanied the Archdiocese of Cardiff and the Diocese of Menevia on a two-week pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. I acted as one of the Team Leaders joining...

https://rhystranter.com/2023/08/22/world-youth-day-portugal-2023/

In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the most-performed living composer in the world, and his life and work played a key role in the deve...

https://rhystranter.com/2023/08/21/arvo-part-centre-laulasmaa-estonia/

This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the things that we did, with a selection of photographs from each day.

https://rhystranter.com/2022/05/05/rome-pilgrimage-easter-2022/

In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of Terrence Malick's 2019 biopic of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter—execut...

https://rhystranter.com/2022/04/29/malick-hidden-life-saints-hagiography/

In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer discusses the significance of his personal diaries to the formation and development of his music.

https://rhystranter.com/2021/06/28/arvo-part-diaries-documentary/

31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus (more commonly known as the Jesuits). In a breviary, I come across a passage from the Acts of Sa...

https://rhystranter.com/2020/07/31/ignatius-loyola-reading-the-saints/

Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390) thought to be a disciple of St Antony. I was struck by the following passage...

https://rhystranter.com/2020/07/18/saint-pambo/

Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

https://rhystranter.com/2020/06/23/these-are-some-of-the-things-that-we-see-on-our-walks/