Never Lose the Mystery – The Most Holy Trinity In today’s throw away culture, once a relationship loses “the mystery”, the advice I have often heard thrown around is “move on” or “mix things up”. As misguided as this advice is… it tells us something about our hearts… we long for mystery. It is important […]
I Prefer Paradise
I learnt this refrain from Don Claudio, the much loved parish priest of Cavriago, Italy where I spent many a happy university holiday helping in the parish. To be honest it got stuck in my head even before I really knew all the words, its catchy! It was written by Marco Frisina for the 2010 […]
Love: Italians Have it Easy
So I have had just over a year of living and studying in Rome. Learning italian and, at the same time, learning latin and studying philosophy in this new language has been a very interesting experience… one I can only compare to learning to play a really intricate guitar piece and singing the song at […]
How Music Changed my Life
I was a really shy kid so it took a lot of effort, but in the end I built up the courage to show up one evening at band practice just to see what it was like…
Saying goodbye to St Charles
This Sunday my parents sent me a message on whatsapp. They said that they had just been to their last 17:30 mass at Victory Park. It was a hard thing to hear…