A gamble in the jungle Where lives dangle The soldiers ramble Looking for who to trample The lion, comfortable in slumber While cheetahs troop in number(s) And the SARS carelessly like a barber Brutally fishing us out one after the other Hiding in his secured house of rock The toothless lion fancies to be a roc Dreaming of saving the jungle from the deadlock As the vampires feast on our…
In a few years of my life as a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, I have lived with many brothers from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. In my prenovitiate year, I had a French community superior. In my novitiate year, I had a Polish and an Italian novice masters. In my eight years of Scholasticate, I had a Polish and an Italian superiors again. I also studied with brothers from different…
Watching the gruesome asphyxiation of George Floyd says a lot about being black in the USA. I know racism is a very delicate matter and that one can’t define society by the actions of a few individuals or a given class of citizens. Yet, police brutality and the gruesome killing of blacks in America are now something else. And even though George Floyd’s death is not an isolated case, the spectacular way…
