February 10, 2019
Our gathering today in this Ultreya celebration for the Diocese’s Cursillo, reflects the gathering of the apostles returning from their travels, who were telling Jesus about all that had happened […]
January 21, 2019
Those days which John’s Gospel is describing in John 2:1-11, in which Jesus was living and emerging as a preacher, healer and teacher in his local community and the surrounding […]
December 28, 2018
In the midst of darkness, it is hard to imagine light. There are two possible reasons why we cannot see, either we are in the dark, or we are blind. […]
November 21, 2018
At 11 am on the 11th November 1918, the Western Front fell silent as the Germans finally called for armistice, a suspension of fighting to secure a peace settlement. In […]
September 22, 2018
There is a significant story which needs to be told repeatedly so it never goes away, so it can never be denied. It is a story we don’t often see, […]
July 8, 2018
There is a significant, seismic shift in the behaviour of many people in the English speaking world, with access to social media who have taken advantage of their capacity to shed the […]
April 28, 2018
A small, dirty, frightened, horrified boy was found clinging onto his dead father’s body, as he wrapped himself around his father’s chest trying to wake up his father. The man […]
March 4, 2018
‘But enough was not enough. Who ever saw the limit in the given anyhow?’ (1991:46) These words, written by Seamus Heaney come from a poem called Wheels within Wheels, included […]
January 8, 2018
Turning away from God and choosing instead to move purposefully, towards the ‘One Who Calls’ is a sign of these times. The deep despair of women who find ‘the Church’ […]