6: Bethlehem – Joy and Pain
One makes many new friends on a pilgrimage. As one shares a profound spiritual journey with others, one becomes close...
Gunther Simmermacher
7: Pagan signposting
When Queen Helena, mother of the newly converted emperor Constantine, came to the Holy Land in the first half of...
8: Jesus HQ in Jerusalem
The Mount of Olives was to Jesus times in Jerusalem what the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee was...
9: Where Mary was born
When we think of Mary at the time of the Annunciation, we may well imagine a young country girl, perhaps...
10: Simon Peter, just like us
Spare a thought for poor Jesus as he pondered whom among his disciples he should pick as the rock on...
11: Why was Jesus killed?
The inevitable centrepiece of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land is the Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross more...
Hurley remembers Vatican II
VATICAN II: Keeping The Dream Alive, by Denis Hurley OMI. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2004. 300pp. By Gunther Simmermacher Some years...
Filmgoer’s Guide to God
THE FILMGOER’S GUIDE TO GOD, by Tim Cawkwell. Darton, Longman & Todd, London. 2004. 170pp. R139. Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher...
Requiem for a dog
“What’s your story? It’s only a dog,” exclaimed a family friend upon learning of our grief for Laska, our late...
