I sometimes sit quietly to ponder the parable of the prodigal son. It has personal meaning to me, it hits home! The younger son was impetuous, selfish, self-centered. He wanted it all and heRead more
Life, along with the unexpected events which ‘invade’ it and throw us out of kilter, can seemingly get in the way of our relationship with God. At least, that is what happened to me.Read more
Why is it that we human beings cannot truly accept that God really loves us with a never-ending, unconditional love?Sure, we can mouth the words – “I know God loves me” – yet, in the shadowsRead more
The mysteries of the Rosary are based on twenty incidents in the life of Jesus and his Mother Mary. I encourage you to use the Rosary to also reflect on twenty incidents of your own life and toRead more
Time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. From my personal perspective, reaching the winter of your life doesn’t mean that life is over. Far from it! EveryRead more
One thing we know for sure about our God: .... Our God, who loves us from eternity to eternity, wants to give us life for eternity [Henri Nouwen].Read more
The late Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan of Vietnam said that Mary’s entire life can be summed up in three words: Ecce, Fiat, and Magnificat – Ecce: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.”Read more
Have you ever considered how much you have changed with the passing of the years… and the ways in which you have changed? The world is shifting and swirling so fast, it is a fact that we live inRead more
One thing the Christmas story teaches is that God loves us extravagantly, unconditionally. Because God has cre¬ated us in God’s own image, there’s a picture of God, a treasure of God, in each ofRead more
It was a couple of days after the death of Jesus of Nazareth on the cross on Golgotha, a hill outside Jerusalem, when two travellers set off on an 11-kilometre journey to walk to the smallRead more