Join Kate Kearins, Lucienne Hensel, John Kleinsman & Triona Doocey in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures of the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday 9 October, Support Life Sunday,
Join Chris Duthie-Jung, Rosalie Connors & Colin MacLeod in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures of the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary TIme – Sunday 2 October 2022.
We reduce Christian faith to a pretty gentle existence in a comfortable church, a few minutes every day to pray,… It’s not much like the adventure that Abram embraced.
The child without thinking reaches out and grasps hold of maybe a finger and holds on. Perhaps they are thinking that if they hold on they will be more secure?
The serpent is not a bad creature – just an early ancestor of advertising which promises us the world, offering us the power and popularity of a god if only you eat this, do this, buy this, own this, wear this, shop here…
The Church was born in closed rooms. It was in these confines where Jesus broke through locked doors and fearful hearts to form and now (in these days) to re-form the church.
The storm exposes our vulnerability and uncovers those false and superfluous certainties around which we have constructed our daily schedules, our projects, our habits, and priorities.