Viola Athaide, a student of Theology, is actively involved in parish life, leading Bible courses, the Prayer Group, and the Ministry with Maturing Adults.
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But Sinai was calling, and I couldn't say no. This was the mountain of God, the mountain of the 10 Commandments, and Charlton Heston and more. As I oscillated between Yes, I will climb the mountain, and No, I can't do that, came the final call, "Are you coming, or not?"...
As part of our poetry series, here is a poem by Viola Athaide, a student in the Windows on Theology program at Regis College, Toronto. She grew up in Mumbai, India and currently teaches Scripture at her local parish church....
Not another doctor's office with a receptionist flashing plastic smiles, phones ringing only to disturb the stupor of patients patiently waiting for entrance to the inner sanctum....
n the flowering memory of a mystic India singing birds on peepal* trees bring love's melody to me....
