This time last week I was having breakfast with the priests of a parish where I was leading a retreat
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Jesus dies
I spent a couple of hours during the week with the teachers in one of our Catholic primary schools.
take up the cross
The cross-bearer is a Christ-bearer, and is able to walk erect with Christ in confident and fearless hope.
win the crown
We get to choose the crown we wear. We can spend our earthly life striving for the earthly crown
scourging
Most of our personal physical suffering happens because people who are themselves desperately seeking survival speak and act without awareness
in a garden
Let’s enter the Gethsemane scene engaging each of your physical senses: what can you see, touch, taste, hear and smell.
sorrowful
Sometimes in the middle of the night, even without waking, I feel the cross with the figure, the dead Christ, and remember
cafe protagonist
Last year I suggested that people might like to take the initiative to organise gatherings at cafes and bar
Last Supper
“If the Eucharist is just a symbol, then to hell with it.”
Transfiguration
This Mystery of the Rosary opens the door between earthly routines and ordinariness and divine eternity and life.
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with a nod and a wink
Event organisers and catering companies would have considered it to be a stupid thought, but still Andrew spoke.
John on sabbatical
a podcast conversation with Triona Doocey asking some challenging questions about my sabbatical weeks.
sabbatical update
I’m like Thomas. I need to experience Christ. Happy Feast Day to all of us who seek greater maturity of faith
a friend within
Let’s learn both from Anton’s life and from John’s reflection to seek more passionately the ultimate relationship
a thin place
Awareness of Thin Places has become a sabbatical theme for me.