A personal search for the capacity to love without limit.

My family tradition is that of a long distance journey across centuries as Catholics devoted to Jesus Christ in the teachings of the Holy Bible and the Church. I have always yearned for more, for a spiritual simplicity that was rekindled by a complex man, known to us as Francis of Assisi. I have read so much about him and the community that he created in this country with help from Clare of Assisi.

I have also read many books about the spiritual journey of the man Siddharthur Gautama from India six hundred years before Christ. I see the uncommon truth of a deep love for the Creation.

I do fast. The impending season of the Pentecost is a favourite period for fasting and I have tried to inspire my daughter Chiara (the Italian 🇮🇹 form of the English Clare) to also be measured in her own consumption of food during the season and her response has always inspired me to her inner spiritual maturity.

Prayer is extremely important as a means of expressing our gratitude for all we receive in this life from our Heavenly Father and part of our dogged search for truth and justification for our existence. I do attend Church services yes, for Communion in the Eucharist but also for the conditional connections with the Church family. I’m cognitive, cognisant of the interconnected relationships we have in life.

My life with my daughter, and my extended family are aspects of the direction of my relationship with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.