I am now going to open your graves; I mean to raise you from your graves, my people … and you will live.
life
choosing life
Our greatest human desire is not to be free of suffering and pain, but to live whatever reality is present in the great company…
death & life
I have often quoted the High School principal who when asked to name the specific reason for the existence of her school responded: “We exist to prepare our students for death.”
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
being real
Somewhere we picked up the false idea that highs mean happy and lows mean sad.
real food
There are many different kinds of food and I don't just mean the stuff we put into our mouths. A few years ago a number of chicken soup books were published offering...
choose life
I remember turning up the driveway of Holy Cross College Mosgiel on the day I entered the seminary and seeing a marble statue of Jesus carrying his cross heading out...
choosing life
This week the End of Life Choice bill has been debated in the New Zealand parliament resulting in the decision to send the bill to Select Committee and consult citizens...
thinking next year
A few months ago I was speaking to a young person who said he hoped to know his plans for next year by the middle of this year. Since then a number of other people have...
feasting the cross
In the early 1980‘s I lived for six years preparing for priesthood at Holy Cross seminary in Mosgiel. In the late 1990’s when the number of seminarians was relatively...
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Lectio Divina
There is one particular way of listening to what the Lord wishes to tell us. We call it Lectio Divina
just be perfect
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
in recovery
This realisation is precisely what it means to live in right relationship with God and with self.
God is …
Perhaps there is a way to ensure that I am well whatever is going on in my life.
something greater
I like Jonah. I understand him. I get his reluctance. I feel his fear. I can even read his mind