Perhaps we have never really understood that the stressed existence that most of us think is a normal part of life on earth is not the way things have to be.
Mary
two saints
Jesus certainly doesn’t intend to condemn the attitude of service but rather the breathlessness with which it is sometimes lived.
death and life
SADNESS & HOPE A cemetery is a place of great sadness, and a place of great hope. A visit to a cemetery is always an encounter with the ultimate reality. All the...
the one thing
I watch the social media commentaries on the Sunday Mass readings fairly closely. Every week I notice a few good thoughts, and at Christmas and Easter there are...
dead no more
"Not only the encounter but also the capacity to understand that calling is a gift of Grace" (Luigi Giussani 1964) This Sunday, the fifth of Lent, the triptych of key...
the angel of the Lord…
One of my favourite formal prayers is the Angelus. This prayer focusses the pray-er on the moment when God took on human flesh in Jesus, the moment of the conception of...
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from the hilltop
it is a liberation from the burden of everyday life, a breathing in of the pure air of creation
just be perfect
let’s take a look at what Jesus means (and doesn’t mean) by perfection.
grateful
I need to meet Jesus, not in the then and there but in the here and now
A.S.K.
If I like to be asked, then perhaps God likes to be asked as well?
signing
Yesterday morning I was with nine others at a FFF cafe gathering.