Let’s retreat from from “those false and superfluous certainties around which we have constructed our daily schedules…”
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that sinking feeling
We are faithful disciples when we calmly keep our gaze fixed on Christ. It is this gaze that saves us
a little bit
What the boy brings seems so insignificant in the face of the problem: “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”
mature faith
Thomas was not a doubter. Instead he was an adult seeking the verification that all adults need if we are to truly believe.
without fear
The experiences that feel like death are very often more like a birth offering different opportunities and invitations.
the pointer
instead of an aimless wandering from one attraction to the next, their new life had one single purpose.
freedom from fear
When Jesus acknowledges the reality of fear in our lives, he gives us a way forward
engaging fully
…your “little” has great value in the eyes of Jesus, provided that you don’t keep it to yourself, but put it in play. Put yourself in play!
THE sign
… discreetly in a restaurant, or unashamedly before a meeting, a performance or in competition on the sports field.
God going viral
For many good and faith-filled people the Church is experienced as a room closed with the door locked.
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in the field
Such wise people have reflected on their life experience enough to know that while a peaceful and perfect day is welcome, we are most connected with others and therefore with God (we could also say most connected with God and therefore with others), when we live a struggle together.
FFF the book
Every day I am with people who may have once been baptised but now feel a distance between themselves and the Church and God. We are these people, as are too many of our family, friends, neighbours and workmates. This book therefore is for us.
church beauty
We call things beautiful when they reveal to us their inner essence, their reality as understood in the mind of God
revolutionaries
On this feast of All Saints in 1541 Michaelangelo‘s Last Judgement was unveiled on the rear wall of the Sistine Chapel.
walking together
Whenever priests meet the highlight is the personal conversations over slow food and drink especially when struggles and failures are shared with honesty and humility. There is laughter too, much laughter