Pentecost Greetings! I am still basking in the joy of yesterday’s celebration of the gift of Holy Spirit to the Church and humankind. I am also contemplating the reality of the brevity and uncertainty of life, against a backdrop of beautifully delicate hues, representing the amazing nature of God’s love. It is a backdrop however,…

There’s a BBC period drama series that comes on the PBS channel on Sunday nights at 10:00. Each week, I look forward to the unfolding stories, involving nurse-midwives, some of whom are religious sisters, from a fictional Anglican Convent called Nonatus House; they provide nursing care and counseling, to the poor, women (and their families),…

Greetings! It’s a rather bleaky [as we say here in Jamaica] Monday, mirroring I suppose, the way many of us are feeling at this time. The relentless persistence with which life seems to hurl problems at us, is surpassed perhaps only by our penchant for giving up the fight in mid-stream. This tendency not to…

This morning as I sit at my computer, mentally flipping through the pages of the week past…the mountainous problems still erupting in St Vincent, the recent deaths of several more friends and acquaintances plus the pandemics that are wreaking havoc here in Jamaica, particularly the one driven by lawlessness and requires, even more than a…