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starting over

Apr 5, 2021

I think most of us find Lenten penance easier than Easter living.

running together

Apr 4, 2021

Easter is the centre, the core, the meaning of all human existence

Apr 3, 2021

Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today

Apr 2, 2021

Does it seems odd to title today’s reflection for Good Friday THE Comedy?

Apr 1, 2021

I feel a bit torn today between the solemnity of the Holy Thursday commemoration of the Last Supper, and April Fools Day

Mar 31, 2021

All things both good and bad, begin in a single moment.

Mar 30, 2021

Pope Francis concluding last night’s Francisco documentary: “God bless you! And while you’re there, pray for me!”

Mar 29, 2021

The reading of the Passion is a bit of a marathon requiring some stamina of body, mind and soul.

Mar 28, 2021

In Holy Week we don’t simply recall past events, but we engage in a here-and-now re-membering

Mar 27, 2021

More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This is what I have wanted all my life from my youth….

In the 1963 novel by Australian Morris West a Ukranian archbishop is elected pope

Perhaps my problem is my faulty default setting, the constant and sinister voice in my head

We all struggle to forgive those who have hurt us and those we love.

In Jesus God is where we are, here and now. Speak to him. Listen for him.

Without this relationship we become for our world a reactive presence rather than an original presence.