Spiritual Reflection
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An invitation to something higher
Feb 07, 2025
For too long, preachers, catechists, Church hierarchy, and moral theologians have been too focused on sin. Well, indeed there is sin around, but that should hardly be our focus in terms of understanding what it means to live a moral Christian life. Here we should take our cue from Jesus.
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Coming to peace with our lack of recognition
Jan 17, 2025
We crave few things as deeply as self-expression and recognition. We have an irrepressible need to express ourselves, be known, recognised, understood, and seen by others as unique, gifted, and significant
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My top ten books for 2024
Jan 10, 2025
Full disclosure, I don’t read enough. A busy, pressured life affords me only small windows of time to read anything not directly related to my ministry.
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Christ’s birth in Bethlehem – soothing or disturbing?
Jan 03, 2025
We see this today (and this will constitute a judgment on our generation) in the reluctance, almost all over the world, to welcome new immigrants, to make room for them at the inn. If Christ is in the poor, in the stranger, and the Gospels assure us that he is, then Christ is surely in the immigrant
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Vows we don’t choose
Dec 13, 2024
Many of us still know people who because of circumstances like poverty, the death of a parent, a family situation, or personal illness have had vows made for them.
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Penitence; Do it now!
Dec 06, 2024
Stay Awake! “Watch and pray constantly; Make ready the way of the Lord; Blameless when Jesus comes; Arise Jerusalem these are some of the words that we hear during the season of Advent.
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Heaven isn’t the same for everyone
Dec 06, 2024
Daniel Berrigan once said: Before you get serious about Jesus, think carefully about how good you are going to look on wood!
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The Tower of Babel
Dec 01, 2024
The opening pages of the Bible offer us a series of stories set at the beginning of history which are meant to explain why the world today is as it is.
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Lighter thoughts on a heavy subject
Nov 22, 2024
Our faith tells us that, given the love and benevolence of the God we believe in, only the second option, happiness, awaits us.
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Bread and wine
Nov 15, 2024
At the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Eucharist he chose to use two elements, bread and wine.



Sunday Reflection
Jesus calls us to be courageous and embrace risks
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Andrew Kooi
