Not uncommonly, it is not the right answer that creates clarity but the correct question that is being asked Why do you persecute me? (Damascus) What are you looking for? (Bethany, by the River Jordan) Who do you say I am? Who do men say that the Son of man is? (Caesarea Philippi) Do you love…
These are the pictures of a young bulbul chirping on our Peacock tree (right) with the mother looking anxiously on (left) . Can we trace them back to their lineage from a year ago? The Yellow-vented Bulbuls (Pycnonotus goiavier) has revisited our home, after we spotted the species laying their eggs almost year ago. This…
Let’s be wary of false prophets, in these troubled times, when the forces of good versus evil are in constant play. Indeed it was Jesus who declared to Pontius Pilate during his trial at Jerusalem that “my kingship is not of this world; if my kingship were of the world, my servants would fight, that…
Not long afterwards, Lewis read Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man (1925) and was surprised to find the whole Christian outline of history making sense. An even stronger blow at his efforts to keep God at bay came, when he wrote in Surprised by Joy, Early in 1926 the hardest boiled of all the atheists I ever knew…
The Yellow-vented Bulbuls (Pycnonotus goiavier) has revisited our home, after we spotted the species laying their eggs almost year ago. This is probably an offspring, fluffier, more rounded, with hints of a muddy yellow now re-nesting in our neighbourhood. (Lumix GX85; F5.6 1/160 iso 400; Olympus Zuiko 40-150 mm, 2017)
Whereas the angel “came” to Mary (Lk 1:28) , he merely appears to Joseph in a dream – admittedly a dream that is real and reveals what is real. Once again, this shows us an essential quality of the figure of Saint Joseph: his capacity to perceive the divine and his ability to discern. Only…
Caught our pair of Indian ringneck parakeets as they revisited and this time, it was possible to photograph the pair of birds individually, one greener, with a brightly painted beak, and the other, more subtle hued, with a faintly faded red beak, busily feeding, and calling out to each other, they launch themselves heavily with…
The epiphytic pink phalaenopsis orchids make another guest appearance this New Year in the north garden. Catching them before they open, one is reminded of a storm trooper – the protective helmet, the hostile snarl, and a eye for danger, but certainly dressed in beautiful regal purple with the deep yellow stamen within. (Lumix DMC-GX85, Olympus…
As He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him (Lk 9:18). This passage is cited in Pope Benedict’s book, Jesus of Nazareth (the first of the Trilogies) as a “deliberate paradox”. He writes that “the disciples are drawn into his solitude, his communion with the Father that is reserved to him alone. They are…
The little Catholic Church at Tianxiang, Taroko Gorge comes attached with a hostel – basic but clean. Amidst the lovely poinsettia, the chinese Prayer of St Francis, lies a lovely Church and the Christmas Crib.