Prayer Articles
How do we create space for God in our lives?
Reflections from Catholics exploring our relationship with God through prayer.
Respect for our elders
The theme of respect for elders this NAIDOC Week is one that unites First Nations peoples and all other Australians. As with all the...
Awakening my soul
Prayer and worship move us towards lives that are filled with God’s love and open to each other and the world. Life is full...
God’s tender love
Celebrated on the Friday following Corpus Christi Sunday, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus focuses attention on God’s tender love for us...
Dispelling the darkness
As well as its victims, torture causes irreparable harm to its perpetrators and societies that allow it to function. We often think of torture...
Leading with the soul
A leader is capable of careful reflection, and of articulating the fruits of this reflection. In a tiny town of western North Dakota a...
Together
The Voice to Parliament is a natural and necessary step towards practical reconciliation. In Indigenous affairs this year all roads lead to the Referendum...
In solidarity
Prayer is vitally important if the desire for Christian unity is to be achieved. In Catholic churches in Australia the Week of Christian Unity...
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...
Ebb and flow
Pope Francis’ prayer intention for May is a reminder that our lives are a continual journey of finding, losing, and rediscovering God’s call to...
A harvest of friends
By Myree Harris
Our lives are enhanced by the friends we make and the contacts we keep. While visiting a friend, Nancy, some years ago, we went...
The sadness of war
Anzac Day’s importance lies in it being day to meditate on the tragedy of conflict. At Anzac Day this year war is more than...
Listen and look
The Gospel of Matthew is a treasure, replete with colourful images and a call to see the world as God sees it. There is...