Dear Friends I love alliterations, and this week accords me a little literary pleasure. Last week we celebrated the beginning of the Month of May, a Month when we intentionally focus on overseas Missions. Last week we celebrated May 4th which is otherwise known as: ‘May the force be with Read more…
Dear Friends So, for all the movie buffs, the biggest movie of 2019 has just been released. The Movie group will need to get across this because it’s not the ‘Prince of Egypt’ which we have just seen. It is called ‘Avengers: Endgame’. And, apparently, this movie is being warmly Read more…
Dear Friends I have long been fascinated with Easter Saturday. It never feels like a typical Saturday. It may be a day just to regather, recover or even do household chores. But there is a subliminal sense, to me anyway, that this day is special. It is a day that Read more…
Dear Friends Today is Palm Sunday (or Peace Sunday), which marks the beginning of Easter and the passion story of Jesus. Today we remember Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem which, unlike in the synoptics (Matthew, Mark and Luke), in John he has visited many times. But this visit in John is Read more…
This week, in our journey of spirituality, we look at Spiritual Reading. It is, as Thompson writes in her book ‘Soul Feast’, an opportunity to look at ‘The Dance of Lectio Divina’; meaning, using the Scriptures as a means to deepen our prayer and spirituality. The practice of Scriptural meditation Read more…
The word ‘spirituality’ is a relatively recent word used to describe prayerful piety; it probably gained prominence in the 17th and 18th centuries among English Protestant and French Catholic theologians. It is obviously derived from the word ‘spirit’, and probably from the Latin spiritus to highlight the renewing touch of Read more…
Upon returning from Nicaragua, I chanced by the newly released Quarterly Essay entitled, ‘Moment of Truth: History of Australia’s Future’ by Mark McKenna. I couldn’t put it down; in fact, I wept, so powerful was the story painted of the struggle of the indigenous community of our nation. In one Read more…