pope Francis

revolutionaries

Nov 1, 2023

On this feast of All Saints in 1541 Michaelangelo‘s Last Judgement was unveiled on the rear wall of the Sistine Chapel.

Fathers’ Day

Sep 4, 2022

It’s Fathers’ Day today in New Zealand and Australia

THE encounter

Aug 22, 2021

It is the Risen Lord who is our security, who makes us experience profound peace even in the midst of life’s storms

engaging reality

Aug 17, 2020

Let’s retreat from from “those false and superfluous certainties around which we have constructed our daily schedules…”

which team

May 19, 2020

And how beautiful it is! It is like getting our lives back, getting a new chance. Nothing is more beautiful than to have a new chance.

no trouble

May 12, 2020

Jesus wishes to say something precise to us. He knows that in life the worst anxiety, agitation, is born from a feeling of not making it, of feeling alone

living the storm

Mar 29, 2020

The storm exposes our vulnerability and uncovers those false and superfluous certainties around which we have constructed our daily schedules, our projects, our habits, and priorities.

Be Praised!

Jun 19, 2019

It is four years this week since Pope Francis published his encyclical on the environment Be Praised addressed to “every person living on this planet.”

hope alive

Apr 23, 2019

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?

a new deed

Apr 7, 2019

…self-esteem is not a human achievement. Healthy self-esteem is the fruit of knowing that we are loved even as imperfect, weak and vulnerable sinners.