Traces
Traces

Traces

One of my reading highlights each month is provided by the arrival of the Traces magazine, available free online at www.tracesonline.org. This month's cover introduces...

Traces 10/15

Traces 10/15

One of the great advantages of the internet is the easy availability of good magazine subscriptions. One of my favourite is even more easily available because it is...

Traces for Feb

Traces for Feb

One of the highlights of my monthly reading is the Traces magazine of the new movement Communion & Liberation.  A few months ago the decision was taken to no longer...

Traces Jan 2015

Traces Jan 2015

One of the highlights of my monthly reading is the Traces magazine of the Communion & Liberation community. A couple of months ago the decision was taken to no...

Traces in December

Traces in December

One of the highlights of my monthly reading is the Traces magazine of the Communion & Liberation community. A couple of months ago the decision was taken to no...

November “Traces”

November “Traces”

One of the highlights of my monthly reading is the Traces magazine of the Communion & Liberation community. A couple of months ago the decision was taken to no...

October “Traces”

October “Traces”

One of the highlights of my monthly reading is the Traces magazine of the Communion & Liberation community. A couple of months ago the decision was taken to no...

Traces

Traces

This month's Traces magazine carries reflections on the 2014 Rimini meeting (with it's "Life on the Peripheries" theme) and the International gathering in La Thuile....

encouragement

encouragement

Traces is the monthly magazine of the lay movement Communion & Liberation. You can read this month's edition online as a pdf by tapping here, or on the image below....

Traces June 2014

Traces June 2014

Read about Fr. Julian Carron's recent visit to New Zealand in the June edition of Traces magazine. The English version of this magazine will no longer be published in...

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my word your home

my word your home

The heart of the home in years past was the hearth.
It was at the hearth that the family gathered for the warmth and light of the flame and the food that was prepared there.
The fire was treated with respect since the same flame which provided energy for the home could just as easily destroy it.

stand up look up

stand up look up

The Israelites in their forty years in the desert were journeying from captivity to freedom, but the struggle of their desert years made them vulnerable to attack from every temptation as today’s first reading continues

confident in God

confident in God

I’m not sure if children today are told the great story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, but if not let’s make sure that the parable is taught at all schools of higher learning.

the teenagers

the teenagers

A few years ago I discovered the wonderful way that God uses my imagination in my prayer.
Such openness to imagination when seeking God does not take us away from reality into fantasy but instead brings me into what is most real and inescapably personal and intimate.

Annunciation

Annunciation

A couple of thousand years ago, a young Jewish woman was going about her normal morning routines, perhaps with a mixture of house and garden work, chatting with parents and neighbours, aware of the local drought, the sickness of a neighbour and annoyed by the neighbourhood’s lack of sleep caused by the Romans’ noisy party the night before, when God broke into her routine and entered her life in a new and powerful way.