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Saturday 17 August
Joshua 24:14-29, Ps.16, Matthew 19: 13-15 Keep choosing God, life and fullness of joy We constantly face choices. The question is whether we choose God or closed self-limiting patterns. What we can’t let go could be called an ‘alien god’; something limiting our freedom to love and serve. Even good things may control us if […]
Friday 16 August
Joshua 24:1-13, Ps.136, Matthew 19:3-12 Love takes grace, trust and gentle acceptance of self We can be afraid of the vulnerability and pain of love. To love is to risk hurt, rejection, loss and grief. The daily challenge needs grace, trust and gentle acceptance of self. When we’re wounded, we face a choice. We can […]
Sunday 4 August
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4-11 August: National Vocations Awareness Week Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23, Ps.90, Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11, Luke 12:13-21 Clenched fists or open hands? Our instincts grasp possessions, pride and power. The Jewish Talmud speaks of our entering life with clenched fists and our challenge to leave with open hands. God invites us to […]
Saints for August
Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) Maximilian was born in 1894 in Poland and became a Franciscan. He contracted tuberculosis and remained frail all his life. Before his ordination as a priest, Maximilian founded the Immaculata Movement devoted to Our Lady and helped form a community of men. He went to Japan where he built a monastery […]
Historian George Weigel’s View of New Pope
First, the man: Jorge Mario Bergoglio has remained very much himself, rather than adopting what some might deem the pontifical style. Any pope who can write his former colleagues in these terms—“Dear Brothers: I am sending these lines of greeting and also to excuse myself for being unable to attend due to ‘commitments assumed recently’ […]
Saturday 22 June
2 Cor 12:1-10, Ps 34, Matthew 6:24-34 Love unfolding John O’Donohue wrote, “I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surpirse of its own unfolding.” It takes courage to live like this. To choose voluntary simplicity. To ignore the cacophony of commercialism. To ignore criticism and self-judgement. To be attentive to […]
Talking about Spirituality Today:
Self-esteem and self–denial So far, this series has looked at some basics in Spirituality. We are called to grow in God’s image which means, for St. Irenaeus, to become ‘fully alive.’ And ‘fully alive’ is to live in an ever-deepening or, in Biblical terms, ‘face to face’ relationship with God. Again, Christian spirituality is about […]
Talking About Spirituality Today: – 5
Retrieving the Biblical view of the human person – a helpful approach? So far, in talking about spirituality today and, specifically, Christian spirituality what has stood out? The spiritual quest engages the whole person. Further, it is not ‘one size fits all’ but rather a personal project that is somehow shared yet unique. It demands […]
Monday 11 March
Psalm 30, Isaiah 65:17-21, John 4:43-54 Prayer mingles with praise The psalmist looks back and realises that prosperity had made him feel as strong as a mountain, vigorous and victorious. Then sickness shattered his self-confidence and brought him to the edge of his mortality. In a new awareness of God as the source of […]
TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUALITY TODAY
4. Christian Spirituality and the Trinity In the last article, we explored spirituality in relation to the Christian mystery. We saw that it is a deepening friendship – with the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit. The spiritual quest is one driven by God’s gift of himself. Jesus wants to “share his joy…to the […]
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