This is the last email for “Food For Faith for Advent 2018” subscribers. I thought you might appreciate a New Year encouragement.
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Family & Sr. Wendy
“No matter how deep the love,
every human being is essentially a mystery.
art & beauty & life
One news report says that she lives in “isolation” but she would never say that of herself. As these brief clips below show the heart of her life was relationship with God and therefore she was never alone
love in action
“if we want to find the God who appeared as a child, then we must dismount from the high horse of our “enlightened” reason. We must set aside our false certainties, our intellectual pride, which prevents us from recognising God’s closeness…
on the road
The one who journeys with purpose is able to negotiate any obstacle. But the wanderer is forever rudderless, tossed by every whim of fashion in the sea of popular opinion.
Angelus
The Opening Prayer (or “Collect” of today’s Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent is the concluding prayer of the “Angelus”
the visit
I've noticed that North Americans use the term "visit" in a very broad sense. Whereas in NZ we might plan to visit someone (in person), Americans will also speak of...
can I be sure?
The mature person of prayer knows that the deepest human desire is not to have our little prayers magically answered, but to know that God is with us in our joys, hopes, griefs and anxieties.
free from stress
No need to read further if you never experience stress
in giving we receive
From today's gospel for the Third Sunday of Advent: When all the people asked John [the Baptist], ‘What must we do?’ he answered, ‘If anyone has two tunics he must...
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a new era
If we remain enclosed in our convictions and experiences it will be difficult to be open to that experience of the Spirit
to freedom
The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness
to dream
“when you lose the capacity to dream you lose the capacity to love and the energy to love is lost.”
What do you want ?
We might dream of a magic moment when a magician appears offering us three wishes, but that’s the stuff of fairy tales.
let’s talk
This is the conversation of friends, and this is the kind of constant conversation Jesus wants to have with us.