Point of View

By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com Anthony Bloom, in his book Beginning to Pray, categorises three broad approaches to God: spontaneous prayer straight from the heart, regular prayers of faith and lastly,

By: MARGARET BROWN AN AEOLIAN harp makes music only when stirred by a passing breeze. In a similar manner people’s feelings are played upon by fact and rumour that in

By: MARGARET BROWN HAVING CLAIMED in a previous contribution that personal prayer is something that cannot be taught, I find I am outvoted on several fronts. After reading from one

By: MARGARET BROWN AS THE ultimate act of mediation, Christ pleaded that his executioners might be forgiven because they did not know the true significance of what they were doing.

By: MARGARET BROWN THERE IS plenty of trouble in the world. We see it every day on television and in the newspapers. It keeps the media moguls happy and gives

By: MARGARET BROWN A COUPLE of weeks ago the Sunday Express tabloid newspaper carried headlines stating that the parents of the missing toddler Madeleine McCann were under investigation for child

By: MARGARET BROWN POPE BENEDICT XVI, in the recent Motu Proprio (Papal pronouncement) of July 7, gave permission for the Latin Tridentine Mass, as affirmed at the Council of Trent

By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com IT IS said that present times are a product of what has gone before, and in the here and now we are sowing seeds for the

By: MARGARET BROWN pointofview@portugalresident.com JESUS SAID to him “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father except through me”. John 14:6 For

“SOFTLY, SOFTLY catchy monkey”, when applied to the business world, where an aggressive approach is expected to produce results and speed is everything, does not bring promotion to the faint