Gratitude
This Sunday evening at 5.00pm I will be hosting Sr Margaret Malone at our Slow Spirituality Session. Margaret is a Good Shepherd Sister who has taught [...]
“….they shall mount up with wings like an eagle”
Some years ago I had the opportunity of taking six young people to Vanuatu where we were invited by the local villagers to run a week-long mission in [...]
Strength in our trials
Often in the early morning I walk down to Queens Park for exercise and pass the various memorials to Burke and Wills who camped there on the first leg [...]
Jesus – the gate to new life
One of the first images we are given of the early Christian Church is that of the disciples who have gathered for mutual support in an atmosphere of f [...]
Palm Sunday
It's Palm Sunday this Sunday! A day when the Christian communities around the world traditionally have palm branches adorning their church buildings, [...]
The world belongs to God
I have often welcomed January as a time to plan for the coming year. It’s usually quieter with no meetings and many people away on holiday. But this y [...]
The reign of Christ
This Sunday marks the end of our Christian Year, but we don’t have parties as we do on New Year’s Eve, in fact it goes past hardly noticed. After all [...]
God seeks the lost
Luke’s story of the prodigal son, coming as it does in the very middle of the Gospel, and at the end of three stories about loss, is central to the me [...]
Life-giving Sabbath
It’s a long time since I thought of Jesus as the old children’s hymn puts it: Gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon a little child pity my simplicity, [...]
Jesus notices people – and reaches out to help
Its so easy to miss things, and I don’t just mean missing your car keys and looking everywhere for them. I mean not noticing people, or not taking not [...]