Spiritual Reflection

Dark memory

Sep 06, 2024

Inside each of us, beyond what we can express in words, picture clearly, or even feel distinctly, we have a dark memory of having once been touched and caressed by hands far gentler than our own.
Celibacy — what’s to be said

Aug 30, 2024

Celibacy does consign one to live in a loneliness that God himself condemned, but it is also the loneliness within which Jesus gave himself over to us in a death that is perhaps the most generative expression of love in human history.
Loving your own church and your neighbour’s church as well

Aug 23, 2024

It’s time to move beyond five hundred years of misunderstanding and embrace each other again as fellow pilgrims, struggling together on a common journey.
What shapes a soul?

Aug 16, 2024

So much of us, our strengths and weaknesses, take root in our upbringing – but still, we are responsible for our own lives.
The road less travelled

Aug 09, 2024

Most of the Scribes and Pharisees were good, sincere, committed, religious people with a high virtue. They kept the Commandments and were women and men who practised strict justice.
The illusion of our own goodness

Aug 02, 2024

We might want to hear those words from scripture before we overhear them from some young girl telling her mother that a bitter, ugly, old person is at the door.
Keeping the Sabbath

Jul 26, 2024

God gave us Sabbath, for our health and our enjoyment.
Sacred permission to be in agony

Jul 19, 2024

We are not making enough space for grief, either in our churches or in our lives. We are not giving people the tools they need to handle frustration, loss, and heartbreak, nor how to grieve when they are beset by them.
Praying when it seems useless

Jul 12, 2024

Prayer is most needed just when it seems most useless. Michael J. Buckley, one of the major spiritual mentors in my life, wrote those words.
What has been given you to carry?

Jul 05, 2024

Each of us comes into this world with a God-given vocation. In essence, that’s easy enough to pinpoint. Simply put, we are all asked to love God and love each other.