great two-minute clip from Pope Francis of two years ago on the subject of ‘Forgiveness’. Two years later, am I mistaken is thinking that the man who simply ‘bounded out of the church’ to greet well-wishers in this video is somewhat slower? Speaking with elderly and sick members of a seaside parish of Rome recently, …
St Canice’s can uniquely commemorate the Centenary of the First World War through the stories of five descendants of our benefactor, John Hughes, who lost their lives in the War. This is the booklet that I put around a beautifully-researched story by good friend and fellow parishioner, Kevin Walsh. Click link below to view: Sharing …
eturning to the London, where I called home for seven years twenty and more years ago, the first thing on my list is to get down to the Prêt à Manger on Brompton Road for my ‘fix’ of Langoustine and Rocket sandwich. We sit in the sunshine and watch the world go by. I’m fortunate …
“SENSATIONAL BUTTERFLIES” – AT LONDON’S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Flowering plants and blossoming fruit trees make up a garden for hundreds of multi-coloured butterflies from South America and SE Asia inside a heated enclosure on the lawns of the Natural History Museum in London. Butterflies flit freely from plant to plant, and even land and rest …
OFF-ROAD 4WD TOURING DOWN IN THE GORGE OF WADI BANI AWF, IN OMAN I read about one of Oman’s quaint villages, Bilad Sayt, as “tranquil, with an antique old world appeal and its patchwork of terrace farming and traditional houses laid out against the rocky slopes”. But when we get to the top of a …