Prayer Articles
How do we create space for God in our lives?
Reflections from Catholics exploring our relationship with God through prayer.
Truth in communication
This World Communications Day (16 May), is the time to reflect on the fact it’s what we say, rather than the platform we say it...
Ageing gracefully
We need to understand grace as an event – something that describes the quality of our relationship with God. Where is the Life we have...
Praying for reform of the financial world
Pope Francis knows that all human reform, including that of the financial world, depends on a conversion of heart and mind. At first sight Pope...
Feast of St Joseph the Worker
Pope Francis has dedicated this year to St Joseph. He did so after he saw how much pressure coronavirus put on many families through anxiety,...
Relearning the lessons of Anzac Day
We need to turn away from the chauvinistic view of Anzac Day as a celebration of self-attributed ‘Australian values’. This year Anzac Day falls at...
Praying for the sick
The feast day for St Bernadette, the patron saint of illness is 16 April. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage communities we pray for...
Praying for love and justice
Easter is the ideal time to pray for fundamental rights – Pope Francis’ prayer intention for April. While Good Friday was given over to expediency...
Triumph of the Resurrection
Easter Sunday reminds Christians that there is life beyond our earthly lives. ‘Our Lord has written the promises of Resurrection, not in books alone,But in...
How do we value humanity?
As we move toward Holy Week, we consider Jesus’ brief confinement in Jerusalem before his trial on Good Friday, and the parallels this has for...
True leadership
Church leaders need courage and faith to build creative ways of reaching those on the margins. I once visited a wonderful Catholic charity in Central...
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...