There are times when the world's problems seem too much. But Ignatius loved to look up in wonder at night at the stars and contemplate the grandeur of the created and the creator, meditating on the creature and the creator in himself and in each of us. I have returned to Sydney to find the city stopped in wonder at the vision of three whales playing under the Harbour Bridge. We live in such fast, non-religious society, but here we all are gazing in wonder, celebrating he transcendent as we behold the gift of life in its enormity and grace splashing about in the water.

Like Ignatius who was a man of his time, each of us is called to be a person of our time confident in faith that there is a time for every purpose under heaven.