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  • Lent from different perspectives

    Mar 11, 2022

    Lent is my favourite season in the liturgical calendar. Many people prefer Advent because the season is filled with anticipation and good memories such as decorating our homes with fancy Christmas decorations, going carolling, and partaking in feasts.

  • A woman after God’s own heart

    Mar 11, 2022

    In these times, there is so much literature and self-help books marketed to women. If a woman has an issue, there are at least 10 books to help her with it.

  • Having Abraham and Sarah’s faith

    Mar 04, 2022

    Today’s parents fear that they will not be able to control their children. The media, the online world and their peers are just too great an influence on our children. What do we as parents do? I believe many parents fall into the trap of using aggression and power to offset these outside influences.

  • The blessing of coming clean with God

    Mar 04, 2022

    Jesus’ promise is awesome: The clean of heart (sometimes translated as the “pure” of heart) “will see God.”

  • Trying not to make God look bad

    Mar 04, 2022

    Nothing is as important in our teaching, preaching, and pastoral activities as is the notion we convey of the God who underwrites it all.

  • A time to renew your contemplative journey this Lent

    Mar 04, 2022

    Contemplation invites us to a new way of seeing, of knowing, that is rooted in the indwelling of Divine Love.

  • The blinding allure of greed

    Feb 26, 2022

    In today’s world, we see greed all over and how it has widened disparities and degraded ecosystems while driving corruption.

  • Unexpected blessings at every level of life

    Feb 26, 2022

    Unexpected blessings are like the power-ups that rejuvenate a video game character as it perseveres through the challenges of each level.

  • Finding dessert in the desert

    Feb 26, 2022

    God does not draw us into the desert simply to make us suffer or feel miserable. Far from it, He invites us to make space in our lives and hearts in order to pay attention to the uncomfortable areas of our lives that do not bring us life.

  • May cooler heads and peaceful hearts soon prevail!

    Feb 26, 2022

    The Catholic global peace organisation Pax Christi International issued this statement: “We call for peace, diplomacy, and international action. Generations are at risk, the time to act nonviolently is now”