Prayer Articles
How do we create space for God in our lives?
Reflections from Catholics exploring our relationship with God through prayer.
Season of Consolation: Week Four – The Carrying of the Cross
By Peta Yowie
Jesuit Communications offers a series of reflections around the five Sorrowful Mysteries. This week, we explore the Carrying of the Cross. Parishes and prayer...
Season of Consolation: Week Three – The Crowning with Thorns
Jesuit Communications offers a series of reflections around the five Sorrowful Mysteries. This week, we explore the Crowning with Thorns. Parishes and prayer groups:...
Season of Consolation: Week Two – The Scourging at the Pillar
Jesuit Communications offers a series of reflections around the five Sorrowful Mysteries. This week, we explore the Scourging at the Pillar. Parishes and prayer groups: Feel...
Season of Consolation: Week One – The Agony in the Garden
Jesuit Communications offers a series of reflections around the five Sorrowful Mysteries. This week, we explore the Agony in the Garden. Parishes and prayer groups:...
Season of Consolation: Reflecting on the Sorrowful Mysteries
Individuals and prayer groups will be able to explore the Sorrowful Mysteries this Lent, with a series of weekly reflections leading up to Easter. We...
Pray for Christian communities
Pope Francis’ Intention for March: That Christian communities, especially those persecuted, feel close to Christ and that their human rights are respected. We sometimes think...
A Covenant people
By Anne O'Brien
God is unfailingly constant, it is us that sway between renewal and rejection and back again. We are familiar with covenants in our secular...
The gains of losing yourself
The Christian mission requires the same spirit of creativity and adaptation that drives the entrepreneur. Not that long ago I read a profoundly honest interview...
I am a mission
In thinking about the theme of ‘service’ , I came across these wonderful words of Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium (para 273): ‘I am a...
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...
Happiness in service
Many Madonna readers, I am sure, would have heard the story of the old Cherokee warrior one evening at the camp fire telling his grandson...
Joy in the presence of God
Joy is different to happiness. Joy brings a deeper warmth and contentment to our hearts. Sitting with the question ‘What does joy mean to me?’,...
Feast of the Epiphany
The Feast of the Epiphany reminds us that in their Gospels Matthew and Mark gather together stories about the childhood of Jesus, each pointing to...
Day of peace
The fact that most people do very little on New Year’s Day, may just make it ideal to be a ‘Day of Peace’. Australians seem...