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, […]
When Frailty Hits Home
We do enjoy our own and each other’s high achievements. In sport, artistic endeavours, economic benchmarks, scientific breakthroughs, newly-married love all provide us with delight, awe and wonder, and give us a sense that all is right with the world. We’d love to think that these times of achievement and joy are available to everyone. […]
8 February: Day of Prayer Against Human Trafficking
St Josephine Bakhita was born in Darfur, Sudan, in 1869. She was nine when she was kidnapped and sold as a slave, so traumatised by the experience that she could no longer remember her name. Her captors named her ‘bakhita’, which means ‘fortunate’. In 1882, she became the property of the Italian consul, whose family […]
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 […]
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