Brazil has a new nature reserve; a tribute to a Dutch Marist, Fr Piet van der Aart, who also worked for periods in New Zealand and Brazil.Poetry and Art 
Jesus Dreaming(Comments Off on Jesus Dreaming)
Fr Merv Duffy SM
A Theological Reaction to Michael Galovic’s
Creation of Lights in the Heavens
The religious historian, Mircea Eliade, wrote of the ‘eternal return’ the religious belief that liturgy and prayer can put the believer in touch with the ‘mythical age’, the time when the foundational events of their faith occurred.… More
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Refugees
The banging and the screaming will never leave you.
The yearning in your heart for the home you once knew.
The inch from starvation, your baby's blood on your fingers.
This torturous battle in your mind still lingers.
The rubble, the orange glow of the burning
The smoke rising high in a cloud, churning.… More
The Gap
There is one place where everyone stops. It's under the picture of The Creation of Adam.
The Visitation – Luke 1:39-45, 56
by John Ewen
Cousin, I was pushed out from the shade
by what I could not tell until
I saw you coming, shimmering in the heat
as if you were afloat above the ground.
What made you come now, at this time
I asked myself; how did you know?… More