On The Path Of Charity

It is not merely flippant to say that monks and nuns stood to mankind as a sort of sanctified league of aunts and uncles. It is a commonplace that they did everything that nobody else would do; that the abbeys kept the world’s diary, faced the plagues of all flesh, taught the first technical arts, […]

Paradox Of Our Times

We try hard to prevent deaths we did not provoke, Yet we do not care about deaths we cause.

On Easter Sunday

Christ is risen … that is the good news of the Easter Sunday. Our world is hoping for a different one in these days, a cure for the virus. While we are praying for that to happen it is good to remind ourselves He is the cure for all the viruses of the present and […]

Vita Aquatica Is Here

Adam and I have started a new website called Vita Aquatica. On that website we collect videos related to water some way. Most of them are about diving, but some about other water-related activities as well. There are basically two criteria we use when selecting the videos: (1) we have to like them (an obvious […]

Privilege To Go

Today is the seventh day of the full lockdown in New Zealand due to Covid-19 (the corona virus). The weather is beautiful, but we have to sit at home. Only now I realize what a privilege it is to be able to go where we want. We usually think it is normal, or rather we […]

What A Wonderful World

New Zealand is going into a lockdown in less than two hours. We all will have to stay at home for at least four weeks. Yet there will be electricity, running water, food etc. There are those people that will not be at home, they will be providing all those services and risking their health, […]

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