Holy week is a time of many processions, a form of celebration and prayer beloved by Filipinos and myself. The first is Palm Sunday, when the Lord Jesus, seated upon a donkey, is led into Jerusalem by a joyous crowd, waving palm branches, chanting hosannas and acclaiming him as “Son of David” (Matt: 21:9). I […]
Colm Meaney writes on Holy Week in the Philippines
The author of the second letter to Timothy wrote about himself saying “I have fought the good fight, I have run the race to the finish”
Yes, really.
The climate cult crowd can be presented with all the data questioning, and indeed largely debunking, their alarmist predictions, but it will change nothing
Truly has it been said that “politics is the art of compromise” – not principle.
Please don’t tell me that “it’s only a mask”.
A tragic picture
Historically, resistance movements have worked more by isolated skirmishes than unified movements.
Sometimes during a funeral homily, naturally with appropriate solemnity, I ask the mourners if they think that life has ended for the corpse lying in the coffin. Some might look at me as if I had lost my marbles by asking such a foolish question; others nod that, yes, there’s no life in the coffin. […]
But our response should never be blind obedience.
During our covid times, we have witnessed many examples of how religion has been harnessed for most definitely questionable ends.