However very often the circumstances that we find ourselves in feel like anything but a gift.
Giussani
the adventure
We are made to yearn and long, to hunger and ache, to beg even for the adventure of faith
the protagonist
Perhaps I’m too attached to earthly securities to have need for the good news that Jesus is speaking to me
here & now
The circumstances through which God has us pass are an essential and not a secondary factor of the mission to which He calls us
living reality
The biographies of those named as saints in the church often promote the false idea that a saint is more likely to be an introvert who prefers to hide in a chapel than to engage with the world.
just ask
This weekend's Sunday Gospel opens with a beggar coming to Jesus. The beggar (begging because he was a leper) kneels down and begs Jesus saying "If you wish, you can...
way of the cross
"We cannot forget at what price we have been saved, every day. Sacrifice is not an objection, not even human defeat is an objection, but is rather the root of the...
skype & sun & rain
Many readers will remember Pope John Paul’s visit to New Zealand in November 1986. I had been ordained as a priest just twelve months earlier, and because our...
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Jesus Christ IS speaking and IS teaching, IS preaching and IS healing in our own neighbourhoods
seriously
I’m inspired by Moses’ willingness to accept a NO from God
breaking & entering
I’m happy that Mary’s immediate response at the Annunciation was to be troubled.
here & now
Giraffes with their long necks can look back and forward. Rabbits are nourished by the grass at their feet
God present
Tragically many people think that they are also distant from God. This is not true.