I was a special guest at the Shiffers, close neighbours from a previous apartment building in Double Bay, Bibaringa, last night for the Jewish evening home ritual to ‘welcome the Shabbat’. fter working hard for six days, following God, we welcome the seventh day for rest. What’s happened to that ‘day of rest’ in this …
here’s no such thing as a free lunch, but it’s not about the lunch today. I’m staying at Eddy’s for a couple of nights, and I’m ‘in-charge’ of dinner tonight. Just been to M & S and love the ease of their prepared baked gammon (especially in a strange kitchen) – just slip it in …
n occasion, during my trip to Jerusalem last week, I came across a number of ‘singing priests’ in fine voice, leading their groups of pilgrims in song at the various holy sites. St Augustine says “He who sings prays twice”, and I can tell you that witnessing these special moments, influenced me to stop, and …
hat a treat for my final activity in Jerusalem to attend a Catholic Mass in Arabic in the Byzantine Rite. I was looking for a sung Mass to attend before I departed the Holy Land when a Jesuit friend recommended this Greek Catholic Church of the Annunciation. It is arguably the most representative Byzantine church …
stroll into new areas of the Old City late on a Saturday afternoon rewards me; the smell of incense and spices wafts up from the skylight grates in the roof of the covered maze of Markets below. I take in ‘suburban’ backstreet activity in this 2,000 year-old setting; and somehow I end up by stumbling …