Tag Archive for ‘suffering’
Embracing our Humanity
Life has been a roller coaster lately. One day, everything’s going great and I’m super organised and enjoying living life to the full, and the next, I’m feeling overwhelmed and stressed! I don’t know about you, but I find that often it can be very easy to feel guilty for those downward roller coaster dives. […]
Holiness and Humanness
Life has been a roller coaster lately. One day, everything’s going great and I’m super organised and enjoying living life to the full, and the next, I’m feeling overwhelmed and stressed! I don’t know about you, but I find that often it can be very easy to feel guilty for those downward roller coaster dives. […]
Spiritual Pathways Through Suffering
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller It’s impossible to avoid and evade suffering. However, as author Helen Keller states, it is possible to work with it, manage it, and shape it so that eventually, suffering can be transformed and even overcome. […]
Joy
Part 3 of 3 “That my own joy may be in you” “I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy may be complete” (John 15:11). What does Jesus mean? We start with the this – expressed in the previous verse. As the Father has loved me, […]
Saturday 14 September
EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS (F) Numbers 21:4-9; Psalm 78; Philippians 2:6-11; John 3:13-17 Jesus’ cross and ours Six months after celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus we are again reminded of the cross of Jesus. By believing in Jesus, the crucified one who rose again, we can experience that all our suffering and […]
Tuesday 10 September
Colossians 2: 6-15; Psalm 145; Luke 6:12-19 Called to be healers Jesus calls a group of men to follow him closely and is immediately inundated with crowds who beg him to heal them. Perhaps the first lesson that Jesus is teaching his newly chosen disciples is that they too will be asked to give themselves […]
Tuesday 3 September
SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT (M) 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11; Psalm 27; Luke 4:31-37 Whom shall I fear? Psalm 27 is a beautiful song of confidence in God in the midst of seeming chaos, danger and hostility. Many people in our world are literally facing all these evils. Our own suffering is often inward yet very […]
Friday 21 June
ST ALOYSIUS GONZAGA 2 Corinthians 11:18, 21-30; Psalm 34; Matthew 6:19-23 Suffering Saint Aloysius was born into a noble family but chose to leave behind the comforts of home to live and work among the sick of Rome. He took ill and died. St Paul writes to the Christian community at Corinth detailing a long […]
Enjoying Ill Health
A much-loved member of our Australian Marist community, who died quite some years ago now, used to provide us with great amusement through his tall tales of the real or imagined past, and the seemingly endless library of his illnesses and injuries. One of the worst insults you could offer him was to tell him […]
Saturday 15 December
Ecclesiasticus 48:1-4, 9-11; Psalm 79 (80):2-3, 15-16, 18-19; Matthew 17:10-13 Prepare the way As they come down the mountain after the transfiguration, the disciples, prompted by having seen Elijah, question Jesus about a popular belief. In the last days, Elijah was expected to return to prepare the way of the Messiah. Jesus agrees with this […]
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