The Easter Challenge
You believe because you can see . . . Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe. —John 20:29 Every year it happens: earth shakes her sleepy head, still a bit wintered and dull, and feels new life…
First Steps, Brancaster
This is the day to leave the dark behind you Take the adventure, step beyond the hearth, Shake off at last the shackles that confined you, And find the courage for the forward path. You yearned for freedom through…
To be Poor in Spirit
How little we know what a human life really is – even our own. To judge us by what we call our actions is probably as futile as to judge us by our dreams. God’s justice chooses from the dark…
Prayer Reflection Paper – JF
By Jan Fung February 23, 2015 Prayer has been a stumbling-block for me over the past years, as I watched and listened for a response from God to my constant cries for help within traumatic life circumstances, and none seemed…
Spiritual Pride Disguised as Virtue
So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, “We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.” Luke 17:10 …
The Life of God in the Soul
There is a time when the soul lives in God, and a time when God lives in the soul. What is appropriate to one state is inconsistent with the other. When God lives in the soul it ought to abandon…
MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCIS FOR LENT 2015
. . . Usually, when we are healthy and comfortable, we forget about others (something God the Father never does): we are unconcerned with their problems, their sufferings and the injustices they endure… Our heart grows cold. As long as…
Letting Go
To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring:
it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off;
it is the realization that I can’t control another.
To let go…