Here is the first of my conversations with Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ, Vatican Astronomer on his visit to Christchurch this week.
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liturgy alive
My liturgical formation began as a young child at Mass, watching, listening, noticing and questioning. Somewhere back then I picked up that the Mass was something that God was doing.
locked doors
While a smaller side door was unlocked during daylight hours the view from the road proclaimed loudly “this church is closed.”
pray to sleep
A ten minute audio prayer for bedtime. Relax, press play, and pray to sleep.
divine mercy
It is easy to be sceptical about an individual’s experience of Jesus. Perhaps this is because we do not trust our own personal experience of the power of God made known to us? Maybe we feel as though such personal experience of Jesus no longer happens?
it is the Lord
I like the ordinariness of the question. Jesus asks them not about their level of faith and love (that will come soon) but about fishing
a new dawn
When we gain a free land we usually fall into captivity in other more insidious ways becoming prisoners to ideologies, to consumerism and capitalism and slaves to fashion, business and busy-ness.
hope alive
Each of us is called to rediscover in the Risen Christ the one who rolls back from our heart the heaviest of stones. So let us first ask: What is the stone that I need to remove, what is its name?
with Easter joy
Just as the earthquake shook the land at the moment of Jesus’ death, it was an earthquake that helped to bring our diocese to its knees nine years ago. This places us firmly with the first disciples of Jesus
facing fear
We spend most of our lives running from death and the daily moments that feel deathly. We do our best to avoid such uncomfortable realities and expend time, energy and resources trying to avoid anything that hints at death.
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the thin veil
How many of us have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live;
up a tree
Perhaps God is now too accessible for those of us who might prefer a distant and controllable God.
feasting the cross
The cross is not just a difficulty or an obstacle, but when carried through suffering to death, IS the pathway to life.
maturation
only by recognising one is loved do we at last enter into a truly mature, familial and free relationship with God.
Fathers’ Day
It’s Fathers’ Day today in New Zealand and Australia