Category: Reflections

I suggest that you read, if you have time, the first four verses of Chapter 17. What follows today may make more sense. In chapter…

Heard this week on a talk-back session: “Three places you do not wish to go are Court, hospital or Church; unless you wish to be married…

All sorts of things have happened this past May: elections in India, Indonesia and Australia; the World Cup of Cricket began in England (where else?); the Pope, amongst…

Maybe Australia, in a sense, and all Australians should devour this Gospel today and ponder the aspects particularly reported in Verse 27a: “Peace I bequeath…

“Keep the mystery of Easter alive in us always.” So the Church prayed on the Fourth Saturday of Easter in the Office of Readings. Then…

We are in the midst of a brawl between Jesus and the ‘Jews’, a term John uses to describe those opposed to Jesus. The subject…

Some say that John’s Gospel contains more symbolic scenes than Matthew, Mark or Luke’s. Determining that is a cold wet day activity, by the fire…

The assault in Sri Lanka on Easter Day was, and is, an assault on faith; and not just Christian faith. Like Christchurch; an attack whilst…

The blessing of the new fire at the Easter Vigil is always a cause of comment. Will it be big enough to be of symbolic…

The Election has been called. Holy Week has arrived. Both events are important for all Australians. Some commentators would have us believe that no one…