I have an interview published in this week’s Catholic Weekly with the Canadian author and artist Michael O’Brien, about his new novel, Elijah in Jerusalem, sequel to the best-selling Fr Elijah: An Apocalypse. I also got his thoughts about his sense that we are living in the end times predicted by Jesus and the Biblical prophets. Yes,…
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My shockingly large family, love and identity
It’s been a long since I last posted here and in truth I thought I’d given up blogging altogether, but here I am so I obviously haven’t just yet. Things have been ridiculously busy and kind of tough this year – not so much in a big, dramatic way, although our family has had more…
Parenthood, War, and Peace
After a busy Saturday spent travelling and socialising, last Sunday was what we call a catch-up day in our household. After Mass and morning tea we got to work cooking, doing laundry, sorting out Christmas gifts, and generally tidying up for a couple of hours. The children mostly played or read books and watched…
You start doing something and suddenly it’s 10 years later…..
This from last week’s edition of The Catholic Weekly: Our Naomi turned 10 last week. Some readers of this column have been reading it since she was a tiny baby becoming ready to be born into the world. Back then it was called Pregnant Pause, before there was any pitter patter of little feet in…
Marilyn Rodrigues 