one parishioner couldn’t make out why the promised eternal banquet would include “fine Australian wines…

The wise and learned character in this ancient tale is not any of the sycophantic subjects of the ruler, but the child…

Andrew and John were seekers, full of the restlessness of early adulthood, and confident that there must be more to life than fishing…

So much that is taught and written about prayer serves only to convince us that prayer is a complex project to be mastered…

While some rivers are deep and fast-flowing in an unwavering channel through valleys and across countryside, the braided Canterbury rivers are changeable…

Many of life’s greatest blessings come to us in unexpected ways, at unexpected times and through unexpected people and events…

The fact of our limited time on earth brings a clarity to our vision helping us to keep the struggles of earthly existence in a broader, deeper, eternal and loving divine perspective…

By looking at the graves, before which countless memories return, we remember how they lived, what they loved, what they feared, what they hoped for and what they hated…

On this day, the feast of All Saints, in the year 1541, Michaelangelo‘s Last Judgement was unveiled on the rear wall of the Sistine Chapel…

Too often our proclamation of the Good News has little to do with Jesus Christ, and and is reduced to a moral and legal code focussed on rules, regulations and obligations…

You might like to try reading through the Gospel of Luke and then pick up the Acts of the Apostles which continues where the Gospel of Luke leaves off…

The emotional and therefore spiritual life of a person requires more fully matured senses, not childish undeveloped senses like the psalmist’s idols who  “have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see…

We feel bound to disagree with these prophets of misfortune who are forever forecasting calamity…

And then there were most other times when I realised that I had got to the end of a decade or even through the five decades and realised that my mind had been all over the place the entire time…

In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him. Sixteen years later, they were ready…