Notebook
Forthcoming Publication: Through the Cracks - Memories of an Imperfect Biographer
My journeying has taken me from a Himalayan hill station to Cold…
Our growing is not yet over
‘May seekers of truth give life to those who are satisfied…
Where is hope?
As destruction, injury, homelessness, austerity, poverty and…
Do you know me?
Gérard was waiting at the window of one of the l’Arche houses for people with disabilities. He had been told that an “important gentleman” was coming for lunch.
The wonder of a birth
A bullock-cart, bearing a desperately thin but heavily pregnant woman, her anxious husband and an enormous tin trunk, wound its way laboriously up the steep hillside.
The dark night of the soul
"Your Grace,
... Please pray specially for me that I may not spoil His work and that Our Lord may show himself - for there is such a terrible darkness within me, as if everything was dead.".... "Ask Our Lord to give me courage." So wrote Mother Teresa to Ferdinand Périer, Archbishop of Calcutta on 18th March 1953.