The White Parasol

Back in 2005, I visited Mount St. Bernard’s Abbey in Leicestershire.  There is an altar there to Blessed Brother Michael Tansy. I was in some desperation;  my son’s illness had come back again. So, I asked him “What do I have to do?”  I was desperate for instructions. And I startlingly got an answer.  From [...]

I am with the sinners. Straight up, might as well face it. That is, to be aware of being a sinner and that being saved has nothing to do with how good we judge that we are, or can become. In the gospels: MAT 10, 9-13 MRK 3, 15-17 LUKE 5, 27-32 Matthew (also known [...]

Well, they have no right here do they? They are taking our jobs, our social security, our houses, our schools, our communities. They cause us all the problems of a country which is too full: crime, lack of resources. If they were not here we wouldn’t have any problems. They are to blame. Well, the [...]

There is the greatest of difficulties for me to understand myself. I am full of contradictions. My Mother said once that I was “…so contrary” when I was a small child. I never forgot this even though I did not then understand. Now I know that she is right and it has taken me most [...]

Politics is about anything other than the truth. It can’t ever be about the truth because where ever you have two people pursuing political aims, you have the beginning of the deceit; where you have three, you have the beginning of siding with the one most able to press your own buttons. The truth gets [...]

Eckhart Tolle’s book on “The Power of Now” is very good and very powerful. But it is very hard to grasp some things and even with a genuine aspiration to do so, we still fall on our feet of clay. Well, I do. Sometimes I can have really spiritual moments, even days and grasp the [...]