Point of View

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com READING THROUGH our copy of the Daily Telegraph last week, with its innumerable supplements, I came across several pages on “What to do at Easter”. Among

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com IN GENESIS, the first book of the Old Testament, Abram laments that being childless his slave, Eliezer, will be sole heir to his house. He reproaches

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com THE PRESENCE of evil throughout the world is undeniable and Satan is to Christians the antithesis of Christ. This fallen Angel was recognised in Ezekial 38

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com ROUTINE AND repetition have a way of deadening mind and imagination and are two familiar aspects of religious worship that may hinder a closer relationship with

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com IT SEEMS that the perception of Christ is as varied as the people that have faith in him. While for some, the presence of God may

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com DURING THE 40 days of Lent, the Luz Bay end of St.Vincent’s parish has been offering a York Course entitled, Can we build a better World?

By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WHOEVER COINED the phrase “stop the world I want to get off” tapped in to a sentiment felt increasingly by those caught up in the 21st

By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com A PRIEST of wisdom and experience was speaking to us of humility, a human characteristic not encouraged by the 21st century principle of ‘me first and

By: MARGARET BROWN margaret.brown@portugalresident.com ONCE AGAIN Christmas and New Year festivities are over, to be remembered and savoured when the going gets tough. A most happy celebration of family: of

By: Margaret Brown Email: margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WHILE OUR Christian faith asks us to love our neighbour and to live in peace with all – an ideal for which we may strive,