john oconnor
while we sleep

while we sleep

Joseph would have gone to bed in turmoil, yet he woke with clear direction and new energy.

family tree

family tree

God uses the good and the bad in each of us to sow seeds and mature and nurture faith

i depend

i depend

Earlier today I was in Nazareth House home for the aged and noticed many of the residents using walking frames.

fall in love

fall in love

Faith is not the addition of a programme to our already full hard-drives, or a reboot, but a new default setting.

identifying Jesus

identifying Jesus

John of the Cross appreciates the co-existence of pleasure and pain, hope and despair, joy and suffering.

think again

think again

A young man currently undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. His reflection repeated the word gratitude.

making the choice

making the choice

If you do this, I guarantee that after a day or two, you will notice a difference in your life that delights you.

Gaudete

Gaudete

The mind and heart is drawn to Christ who desires to remove all our anxiety…all we need to do is to ask.

what a guy

what a guy

What a guy. A spectacular presence, the talk of the nation and his era. Hardly retiring and shy. Unmistakable. Unmissable.

the way

the way

When we would get to one of these intersections Dad would stop the car and ask “which way?”

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the diocesan family

the diocesan family

his strengths and weaknesses, and stories of his successes and failings will be well known.

he tangata

he tangata

to recognise each and every person as the pinnacle of divine activity

retreating

retreating

My suggestion is that in a time of retreat what we are retreating from is all that is not reality.

heartland

heartland

he simply sought to be fully with the one or two people he was with in any moment, and that was enough.