Last Thursday morning, my kids and I were driving down the street going to school. The heavens had just given us a fresh blanket of magnificent white. And the sun was shining brightly on the snow. My daughter Isla then shouted, “Look daddy, there are stars in the snow, stars have fallen from the sky!” […]
What’s In The Temple? In the quiet spaces of my mind a thought lies still, but ready to spring. It begs me to open the door so it can walk about. The poets speak in obscure terms pointing madly at the unsayable. The sages say nothing, but walk ahead patting their thigh calling for us […]
After the baptism, where the spirit of Christ first descended into Jesus, He was immediately driven out into the desert. There He was tempted. We hear this week in our gospel that He then said ‘no’ three times to the adversary. It is striking to notice that the very first ‘word’ that the Christ spoke on Earth […]
Driving home the other day, I had an unusual experience. Racing along Highway 407 we were suddenly hit by an intense storm. Snow and hail were swirling and pelting, the road was turning white, I could hardly see the lines. But the unusual thing was that through the storm, perhaps some miles further down the road, […]
Lord make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, joy. O Christ, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as […]
“Though sickness is so familiar a thing, we are by no means clear in ordinary life about what it is. We recognise pain and discomfort or limitations in the use of the bodily powers as tokens of its presence. We ascribe it to outer causes or to inner disturbances of the emotions — but still […]
“Rightly understood, chronic diseases can bring about a wonderful maturing of our innermost nature. Prolonged illness can have its compensations in that it makes us more mature than those who are aways well, who are perhaps so full of vitality that one could almost call them ‘unhealthily healthy’. What comes into being through suffering rightly borne […]
“One of the greatest difficulties, when we attempt to understand our personal destiny, lies in the rigidity of our thinking. We have grown accustomed to judging a particular event in our habitual way; and it is in our nature that such habitual judgments often have a negative colour. Nothing is to be won from them directly; they […]
1st Epiphany Matthew 2: 1-12 When Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea—during the time of King Herod—behold: wise priest-kings from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the one born here King of the Jews? We have seen his star rise in the east and have come to worship him.” When King Herod […]
Last week many of us attended The Shepherd’s Play. The play is of course the story of the shepherds hearing the good news from the angel and finding Jesus in a manger. But it is also the story of Mary who journeys with Joseph to give birth to the Christ child. And I was struck again […]
