Many years ago I saw a film to Sir with Love. It is a British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It […]

Oscar Wilde wrote a beautiful story about a statue.  The statue was called the Happy Prince.  It was a beautiful statue with sapphire in place of the eyes, with a […]

Flannery O’Connor was an American writer who lived in the early 20th century. She was a catholic and being born in Georgia she lived in the Bible Belt in the […]

Christmas is coming to an end and before we finally end this season, we are invited once again to meditate on the true meaning of Christmas. One of the most […]

I’ve always loved how the Christ child in the nativity scene is usually depicted with his arms outstretched, as if reaching out to the world. The birth of Jesus, God […]

The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy has a beautiful story about a cobbler – shoe maker – Martin, who lived in Tolstoy’s own native village.  In this story, Tolstoy develops the […]

On a crisp clear morning over 100 years ago, in 1914,  thousands of British, Belgian and French soldiers, put down their rifles, stepped out of their trenches, and spent Chrismtas […]

Celebrating Christmas after listening to the new restrictions announced by our government yesterday, seems like a contradiction in terms. I Think it is fair to say that many of us […]

There is an old Irish legend, about a King and a Queen who went to war with each other.  The Queen was Queen Maeve of Connacht, and the King was: King […]

There is an old Irish legend that goes back to the time when kings ruled Ireland. It seems that the reigning king had no children to succeed him on the […]