Christmas Greetings – And my best wishes for a happy and healthy 2015 ow fortunate I was to celebrate Christmas in Rome last year. And blessed to be inside St Peter’s Basilica for the Vigil Mass celebrated by Pope Francis. I invite you to view the short video that I made at the time. …
uck and honour in equal measure! On Christmas Eve, we are so lucky to have received tickets at the eleventh hour to be seated in St Peter’s Basilica for the Midnight Christmas Mass, presided over by Pope Francis. Arriving at St Peter’s at 6.30 pm, we join a queue that stretches right around St Peter’s …
I’ve arrived at one big New Year’s resolution! And there’s more than a couple of friends whom I know will keep me to it (will try anyway)! For greater enjoyment of the moment, and with consideration of my continuing good health, there has to be a limit to what I can do in ‘capturing the …
n the car driving from Fiumicino to the hotel in Rome late in the afternoon on the day before Christmas . . . (after two long overnight flights from Cape Town via Dubai) . . . I turn on my iPhone. Hearing the familiar ding, and expecting only the usual telephone welcome from a local …