Prayer Articles
by Brendan Nicholls
Brendan Nicholls is the liturgy coordinator at St Ignatius, Geelong.

Be still and listen
God comes to us in the quiet and stillness, not in storm and tempest. Our Church continues to excite and surprise the faithful and the...

What have you sown?
An understanding of what has gone before will help you plan for a better, more deep-rooted future. Autumn is a beautiful season – a time...

In the presence of God
The aim is to develop a personal prayer life to such an extent that whatever you are doing or wherever you are, you are praying....

Be kind to yourself
We need to cease highlighting our flaws and understand that God’s love makes us perfect. There is an insight into the human psyche offered in...

The greatest lesson
Humans are innately curious. We have a great desire to know things. Each of us has big questions about life, creation and death. We want to...

Wisdom starts here
Wisdom is acknowledging life as it is, neither living in the past nor wishing our time away for some different future. An old joke: I...

My perfect compass
Discerning the better path requires nuance and skill. St Ignatius, through his teaching on discernment, offers us a way to develop the necessary skills. Life...

Welcome moves
The unspoken contract between host and invitee places obligations on both, and where those obligations meet is thanksgiving. As we enter into the festive season...

The giving equation
While service requires sacrifice, there still needs to be a perception that sacrifice brings benefits of commensurate value to the giver, the community or both....

Faith Matters – Abide
Lately there have been a number if situations that have made me more aware of how much words matter. Word can affirm just as they...

Let us rejoice
Jesus is a source of great pleasure and happiness. So good is his presence that we become enamoured with him and determined to seek him...

Faith Matters – Eternal
You may have noticed that things have changed. The weather is different now. It has changed and the trees are all green. Spring is now...