Shantii Pilgrim

  "Crossing", a word charged with so many meanings and feelings when you are in Calais. I'm here lying comfortably in bed at a...

 That's how NOT good the post service is these days. Francisco posted my passport on Friday the 26th around midday. I found out I could ...

The question that I had at the start, "how wild can a human be in Europe today?", is still part of this journey, even though I...

I will simply paste Emma s e.mail that she wrote so beautifully to our "White Stone Associates" as those who are reading this blo...

  I'm in one more beautiful place, just before I entered a village called Sauve, on my way to Nimes. I expect to find a train to take me...

 I absolutely fell in love with the Basque Country, or Euskadi, if you use the local language. The landscape was stunning, people were very ...

Finally I'm taking some time at a cafe, while charging my phone and having a coffee with a "pintxo"(tortilha) at the sound of ...

  I'm about to start a journey through Europe on bike... From my home, the Mount of Oaks to Annahavil in the North part of Ireland, wher...

Does “salvation” even make any sense nowadays? How many people really think of the original meaning of this word so commonly used by “Christ...

  What is that it´s not clear for some christians about the non-violent and anti-war message of Jesus? Did Jesus trained any army to make wa...

  Hoje li um artigo do Padre João Torres (FB) que começava assim " Não basta ajudar — é preciso caminhar juntos",  e na minha resp...

Em resposta a um artigo sobre as cheias em Benguela de Tomás Alberto - Imparcial Press "Mais do que responder a emergências, é necess...

  O que geralmente é ensinado, (quando é, já que estas celebrações cristãs não passam de meros cumprimentos sociais e familiares) é que a Pá...

  Como muitas das accões, parábolas e ensinamentos de Jesus, também a entrada em Jerusalém na Páscoa, chamada hoje de “domingo de ramos” ent...

My mum lives in Benguela, Angola. We are in 2026. There are 2 gates outside that give access to the road where children play soccer almost e...

  I can´t help it, my default mode has been to find "solutions" where I see "problems"... I´m often consciously or uncon...

 If humans in the capitalist world simplify their lives and become less consumerists and more mindful of the origin of the products they con...

 S,14 Março 2026 Hoje fui ao espaço da Comunidade Rasta de Benguela e tive conversas interessantes que me fizeram pensar e escrever... Aperc...

13 de Março 2026, Benguela É sempre difícil para mim vir a países onde ainda há um grande número de pessoas que não são cuidadas… aqueles(as...

Já estou a ler o último livro do Manuel da Silva Ramos  ("Os cosmólogos não vão para o céu") onde o personagem principal visita o ...

  Quero escrever sobre ESPERANÇA... a esperança que sempre alcança, a esperança que não se pode perder até me aperceber que o que esperei se...

(before anything else I would like to say that this is a simple personal perspective and maybe not so accurate theology or history...or mayb...

  31.12.2023 O PARAÍSO Quando perdemos a noção De que tudo é sagrado, Deixamos de saber que somos amados E deixamos lixo por todo o lado... ...

   Vencer o mal  é não nos subjugarmos a ele. é resistir á tentação... o Mal só existe se for praticado por alguém, alguém que abriu o espír...

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This post is partially humorous, partially based on an honest search... If you didn't like the title of this post you probably should...

I think for the last 4 or five years, I've been trying to get back into bloging, but then I never make the time for it...even now, I...

This was a post on Facebook...but I want to include it here ... it´s been 20 days since the 17th of June. the day we started our Natural Bu...

--> Dear Friends of the “ Mount of Oaks”, This letter is from me, Barbara, for those of you who were somehow connected to t...

"- You can't worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you'll end up hating the other. Adoration of one feeds contempt fo...

--> --> This Spirit is not dead, the Spirit that ... “stands for liberation of the human mind from the dominion of ...

LINDO !!!! Acabei hoje de ler, a 25 de Abril..."O Sol dos Trópicos", de Henrique Galvão, de 1936, uma edição creio da minha av...

A caminho do 25 de Abril, e porque também hoje muitas pessoas se lembram que Cristo ressuscitou, e nisso venceu a morte de vez e para...

--> There is a whole spiritual realm we don´t really know much about (if we are honest)... All I´m going to share i...

Finally it seems that I will make the time to write again on this blog... mainly because we have a solar panel which able us to ch...

by Richard Rohr   "The rifts and chasms between good people today sometimes seem impossible to bridge. Let’s just name a fe...

(From Jeremiah 31:10-17 and Habakkuk 1:1-6) Jeremiah speaks to the exiles in Babylon. People were scattered , made slaves throughout the ...

It´s been a while since I last posted here... (I should count how many times I started a post this way, eh, eh) When I first started with ...

I know it´s been a while , but it was not easy to find the time to put together all the footage from our road trip... We´ve been busy since...

One more meditation from Fr. Richard Rohr: We are too tiny, too passing, too recent to imagine any eternal greatness within us, but the ...

Prayer:  O Rising Sun, enlighten my darkness. " Through the heartfelt mercies of God,         God's  Rising Sun   w...

here's a little review of our first 6 days on the road... From Belfast, to Edinburgh/Scotland, then into England....firstly the North...

for some reason, one of the songs I used in the video of our Love celebration has copyrights and is not possible to open in certain countri...

check here for a youtube video... If it´s restricted in your country , click  here instead... for some reason, one of the songs I used ...

Here's Emma and I starting our trip from the Mount of Oaks to Ireland... in our van that now has a name, "soraia"... it came...

This is part of some daily meditations I get through e.mail from Fr. Richard Rohr, a Fransciscan monk living in the north of America... Obvi...

I was meditating this morning on a story writen in the gospel of Luke 8:22-25, when Jesus and his disciples got on the boat to reach the oth...

This is me next to Lesley a week ago during one more Permaculture Design Course we hosted.  I sprained my wrist when I was tying a rope from...

      It's been a good time here visiting my parents... the reason why I came so unexpectedly was due to my mum's health condition...