Prayer Articles

Golf offers a perfect metaphor of life with God. The beauty of golf stems from the fact that success, as well as failure, comes from...

To be a successful pilgrim, we need to travel light and put aside the baggage of fears, prejudices and resentments. That cumbersome term ‘Synodality’ sounds...

A leader is capable of careful reflection, and of articulating the fruits of this reflection. In a tiny town of western North Dakota a little...

Every one of our actions sows seeds for the future of our society. In 1980 St Ignatius’ College, Riverview (Riverview), in Sydney, our largest Jesuit...

We need to be at peace with ourselves so as not to endanger the peace of others. The Irish Nobel Prize poet Seamus Heaney once...

Jesus is with us all offering hope always – even when we face failure, fear and disappointment. Recently I celebrated a Requiem Mass for which...

Thankfully there is nothing complicated about prayer. It is simply an encounter between ourselves and God. When I was a young Jesuit in training, there...

Love and its twin sisters tenderness and kindness require a good deal of hard work, training and discipline. The Feast of the English Jesuit Martyrs...

Hope is not wishful thinking, it a commitment to work to make things better. In August 2012, that wonderful religious writer and speaker, Father Daniel...

How we see the world, our inclinations and orientations in life, our approach to and standpoint on important matters, all form our basic attitude to...

We need to understand grace as an event – something that describes the quality of our relationship with God.  Where is the Life we have...

It is joy and fun that connects us to God and each other. 2020 has been an annus horribilis with sickness, death, loss of business...