Prayer Articles
How do we create space for God in our lives?
Reflections from Catholics exploring our relationship with God through prayer.
The importance of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
For Pope Francis the sacrament of Reconciliation has a central place in Catholic life. He refers to it frequently as one of the pillars in...
Year of St Joseph
Pope Francis, to mark the 150th anniversary of the declaration of St Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, has dedicated most of this year...
The passion pattern
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...
A small change with big significance
An instruction, because of coronavirus, to sprinkle ash on our heads brings home the point of the ritual of Ash Wednesday. During the last year...
Attitude change needed
Pope Francis, in his prayer intention for February, calls on us to walk with women who suffer violence and to encourage respect for women in...
Help for the broken-hearted
Recognising the fundamental unity of body and mind, the Sacred Heart is a devotion of healing for all pain. Trauma has been described as ‘the...
The pause that refreshes
By Julia Upton
There is a spiritual gift for us all in this time between the pre-Covid and the Covid-normal world to come. In 1929 The Coca Cola...
A day for reflection
Australia Day is a day in which we can come together and marvel at this first meeting of cultures and at the richness of each....
The world is our family
Pope Francis speaks of fraternity in a variety of contexts. For him it is much richer in meaning than friendly relationships. It refers to a...
The key of David
The Doll and a White Rose attributed to V.A. Bailey is a story which reminds us that the ways God comes to us sets us...
Waiting in line
One of the British Empire’s finest cultural legacies would be one of the most over-looked: the ability to queue, or wait in line. I think...
Keeping our eyes open
Christmas should not be primarily marked by being anxious about sin, but by being filled with a growing sense of joy. These days most people...
The unsettling sound of silence
In Advent and Lent we hear much about John the Baptist. He is seriously over-exposed. In fact, many preachers run out of creative things to...
Entwined for eternity
I am not sure whether the Advent wreath has made a debut or a comeback. It was never a feature in the Advent liturgies of...
Waiting for God
In Latin, an advent is an arrival; in the Church year it is a time of waiting. In the early Church it was both. It...