Spiritual Reflection
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When is fear healthy?
Oct 04, 2024
A healthy theology of God demands that we stop teaching that hell can be a nasty surprise waiting for an essentially good person.
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Our real legacy —the energy we leave behind
Sep 20, 2024
Our real legacy —the energy we leave behind
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sunday Reflection
The miracle begins when the wine runs out
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Rawi Alexander, OFM, Cap
