This July, Jenn and I journeyed to Rome as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage with a group of colleagues from St David’s Catholic College. We passed through the Holy Doors of St Peter’s, St John Lateran, St Paul Outside the Walls, and St Mary Major, where the remains of Pope Francis are laid to… Read More

It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.

In a November entry of The Genesee Diary, Henri Nouwen reflects on the writing and spirituality of Brother Lawrence

Dorotheus of Gaza, quoted in an entry from Henri Nouwen’s The Genesee Diary