‘Mistrust him, Meg, I will not though I should feel my fear even at point tooverthrow me too, yet will I remember how St Peter with a blast of wind beganto sink for his faint faith, shall do as he did, call up on Christ and pray him forhelp.’ With these words, Thomas More expressed his trust in God to ...
A huge crowd gathered in Nottingham city centre on Thursday, June 15. Whatwas the event? Had Forest won the cup? On a closer look, everyone wassombre, silent and thoughtful. They had come to share the grief of three familieswho had each lost a member in a seemingly senseless murder spree on Tuesdaymorning. Two were students and the third was a ...
The discussion was about vaping. The presenter said it is a problem with youngpeople. They see it as a substitute for smoking – not harmful to health and yetgiving a kick like smoking. Besides, it is ‘cool’ and there is peer pressure to getinto it. But, she said, it is now known to be harmful though maybe not so muchas ...
May opened with a grand display of ritual; people in ‘funny clothes’ heldcaptive to tradition as a crown was placed on the head of a man in England.Millions watched, mildly embarrassed that they were actually enjoying a showthat seemed to have no relevance to real life. May closed for some hundreds ofus as we watched a graduation ceremony at Arrupe ...
I bought this postcard of the tympanum over the door of the cathedral of St Trophime in Arles, in the south of France, in 1964. This twelfth century sculpture shows Jesus enthroned, surrounded by the four living creatures of Revelation (4:6-8) who, from the time of Irenaeus in the second century, came to represent the four gospels. The whole semi-circular ...
What a spectacle it was! Millions watched the crowning of King Charles III and the question arises; why were they drawn to an event that belongs to a bygone age? What has such a ceremony to do with a Britain struggling with a faltering economy? Everyone has a different answer to the question; ‘What did you like about it?’ One ...
A dog is a dog and maybe we do not think much more about it. There are big dogs, like Alsatians, and small ones, like fox terriers. But dogs are dogs and they are just there – part of the environment, maybe making visitors or intruders think twice before approaching a house, but not much more. There is, however, one ...
The late Pianist Sviatoslav Richter explained his approach to playing music as being an ‘executant, carrying out the composer’s intentions to the letter. He doesn’t add anything that isn’t already in the work. If he is talented, he allows us to glimpse the truth of the work that is in itself a thing of genius and that is reflected in ...
For centuries people dreamt of flying. Then we did it. In 1903, the first plane left the ground. What a breakthrough! Less than seventy years later we landed on the moon! Who can believe what men and women can do? It is astonishing. Easter is moving from ignorance to enlightenment. From one way of being to another. We tend to ...
The former Bishop of Gokwe, Bishop Emeritus Angel Floro (83) who died on Tuesday 14 March 2023, was laid to rest in Gokwe amid huge praises for his saintly life of love, prayer and service. Speaking on behalf of the diocesan priests of the Diocese of Gokwe, Fr Tonderai Sola said in the same fashion people chanted for the immediate ...
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