All of us have felt at times during this most unusual situation a sense of loss, floating from one day to next, wondering what has happened. No one can answer why we are all in this situation.  If we watch the TV News, any channel, we are flooded with information and statistics that really mean so little to the ordinary ...

Awakening “Clear days bring the mountains down to my doorstep, calm nights give the rivers their say. The wind puts its hand on my shoulder some evenings, and then I don’t think, I just leave what I’m doing and I go the soul’s way” John Moriarty. An Autobiography © 2001 “I go the soul’s way” drawn to a place of ...

After two months of dealing with this new and unprecedented way of living – it is good to look forward to “new rays” of hope – to see what could possibly be positive in this time of uncertainty. Just think: our communications with people have never been so intense and regular as it was this time last year! Even TV ...

As I begin to set my thoughts into words, nothing else springs to mind except “Corona Virus” or “COVID-19” (which sounds more threatening).  It is still Lent but it has turned out to be one in which our acts of penance have been imposed rather than voluntary. Praying the psalms one morning recently, the verse: “I will lead them in ...

“Scripture is at the centre of everything the Church does. The word of God shapes our prayer and worship. The Bible shows us how to understand the world, how we are called to live and relate to each other” 2020 is the 10th anniversary of Verbum Domini – Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Exhortation on ‘The Word of the Lord’ and ...

O Little town of Bethlehem how still we see thee lie . . . . . . the hopes and fears of all the years  are met in thee tonight. This special hymn will be ringing out in our shops and on our radios over the next few weeks along with our secular festive songs. How many of us will stop ...

The Season of Surrender Be not deceived my friend, as you watch trembling fragile leaves of every hue refusing to relinquish and let go of their ecstatic, comfortable hold on life and all that has been: gradually and finally succumbing to the unrelenting dictates of gravity and the teasing gentle inroads of wind and rain. How hard to say farewell ...

So many of us never know where our commodities like tea, coffee and cocoa come from. Even more so, we never stop to think of the processes it takes to reach our mugs or tea cups! Those on mission in many parts of the world are privileged to meet those who provide for us      . . . and when we ...

Recently we have been reflecting more deeply on the amazing achievement of fifty years ago, when for the first time ever, man travelled to, and landed on, the moon. Many of today’s youth almost take this for granted, as the rapid advance of science has enabled various types of space exploration. For those of us who followed, with baited breath, ...

Just recently journalists were trying to reproduce for numerous colour magazines a strange phenomenon – three rainbows! As we all know, there is usually one rainbow and often there is a second as a shadow…even that is remarkable and we stand to look in awe – but three distinct rainbows! Scientists were scrambling to offer explanations but too, were baffled ...