When the liturgical year finishes our attention is drawn to the end of time. Most of the biblical visions concerning it are associated with natural disasters like earthquakes, powerful storms, volcanic eruptions and so on. For centuries those phenomena were so unpredictable, damaging and powerful that people referred them to supernatural powers: gods and demons. In people’s minds those events…

Today’s gospel speaks about Zacchaeus – a man of great wealth and small size. I find it hard to understand the problem with his height. I’m quite tall and actually I’ve never had a problem watching anything or someone over the heads of other people in a crowd or a cinema. My problem is different: sometimes I feel guilty when…

Once I was coming down from the mountains. Pretty close to the end of my route I met a girl standing on the side of the path. She asked me if I knew how far she was from the car park. I was familiar with that area, so I told her that she was about ten minutes away. But she…

Not so long ago one family asked me to baptise their child. I hadn’t met them before. While we were preparing the event, the reason behind it was revealed. The child had been uneasy and noisy every night, forcing the parents to get up in the middle of the night. They had become so desperate they asked to baptise the…

At the beginning of September professor Stephen Hawking published his new book “The Grand Design”. The newspapers commented that the book was the ultimate proof against God. I’ve bought this book just for one reason: I greatly appreciate Stephen Hawking’s achievements in science. I’ve already read over a half of the book and found it extraordinarily interesting (if you like…