Lent is a time for reflection
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
Christian worship is all important in childhood
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
The seeds of hope
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?
God’s plan
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
Banishing the evils in this world
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
Bringing the days of Lent into focus
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
God is everywhere
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
Humility and faith
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
Man and the environment
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
Tolerance and understanding
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,