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