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Mary on December 2, 2018 at 5:57 am

Thank you Father John for inviting me into a new Advent journey. Blessings Mary

Mary Overbeek on December 2, 2018 at 8:08 am

Thank you Father for your reflection on Jesus. I look forward to your next reflection.

Carlo on December 2, 2018 at 8:13 am

Grazie John !!

Andrew on December 2, 2018 at 8:21 am

Thank you Father.

Lyn & Lew on December 2, 2018 at 8:26 am

Thank you Father we look forward to your daily reflections they do inspire.

Geraldine Pratt on December 2, 2018 at 9:32 am

Thank you Father, for these reflections where I can go forward and closer to God.

Trish on December 2, 2018 at 10:01 am

Thank you Father for the reminder to have silence in our daily lives.

Rega on December 2, 2018 at 10:31 am

My daily bread… brief and simple but deep. Thank you Fr. John.

Fehi Taufa on December 2, 2018 at 11:28 am

Thank you Fr John for calling me / reminding me to grow more and make more progress in making my relationship with Jesus real and alive in my daily reality.

Brian ODonnell on December 2, 2018 at 1:32 pm

Nice flowers.

Anna-Marie Milne on December 2, 2018 at 9:02 pm

Looking forward to the Advent journey along with the Food for Faith followers.

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my word your home

The heart of the home in years past was the hearth.
It was at the hearth that the family gathered for the warmth and light of the flame and the food that was prepared there.
The fire was treated with respect since the same flame which provided energy for the home could just as easily destroy it.

stand up look up

The Israelites in their forty years in the desert were journeying from captivity to freedom, but the struggle of their desert years made them vulnerable to attack from every temptation as today’s first reading continues

confident in God

I’m not sure if children today are told the great story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, but if not let’s make sure that the parable is taught at all schools of higher learning.

the teenagers

A few years ago I discovered the wonderful way that God uses my imagination in my prayer.
Such openness to imagination when seeking God does not take us away from reality into fantasy but instead brings me into what is most real and inescapably personal and intimate.

Annunciation

A couple of thousand years ago, a young Jewish woman was going about her normal morning routines, perhaps with a mixture of house and garden work, chatting with parents and neighbours, aware of the local drought, the sickness of a neighbour and annoyed by the neighbourhood’s lack of sleep caused by the Romans’ noisy party the night before, when God broke into her routine and entered her life in a new and powerful way.