O futuro é agora!
Primeiro Domingo do Advento: 28 de novembro de 2021 Textos Bíblicos: Jeremias 33,14-16 | Salmos 25:4-5,8-9,10,14 | 1ª carta aos Tessalonicenses 3,12-4:2 | Lucas 21, 25-28.34-36 Antigo e Novo Muitas vezes a mensagem do Antigo Testamento pode nos parecer ser mais sombria e dura do que a do Novo Testamento. Só podemos compreender corretamente o... Read More
Visits across the European channel
Some 1600 eyes seem to look straight through me as the young people they belong to are waiting for the meeting in Brentwood Cathedral to begin. It is February 2016 and I have been asked to tell them about Tweeting with GOD. Never had I thought that our simple parish initiative would ever bring together... Read More
Tweeting with GOD in Holland
‘Have a blessed Sunday’, I wish the parishioners with a handshake outside the door of our sunlit Leiden parish church on this spring day in 2010. ‘Father, are there really angels in heaven?’ A blonde girl with her little niece on her arm addresses me, and continues without taking a breath: ‘Doesn’t the Big Bang... Read More
The purpose of life in the Surinamese jungle
I sit on the prow of a fast-moving boat making its way over the broad muddy Copename river with the Amazonian rainforest protruding over the water on both sides. The rhythmic singing of the native boatsman makes my eyelids heavy… Our boat is being paddled to the rhythm of the monotonous singing of a long... Read More