Recently we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany. While sourcing through some homily notes I read something by Fr Flor McCarthy SDB. A key aspect of the Epiphany was the gifts the Magi were bringing to the Christ child. Fr McCarthy says that we all come (in any situation) learning gifts – gifts wrapped up… Read more
Posts Categorized: Sharings
Our Ministry of the Spirit
These are words that we hear and use in the Church that sometimes need to be defined and looked at again maybe to see if they still have that original meaning and understanding. I think of here the word minister. We call the clergy – ministers, but we also use it for the laity and… Read more
The Remedy for Jealousy
This was the title of a short reflection I read recently. If we were to give our own definition of the remedy, the obvious one would be just don’t do it! But it is not as easy as that. We all get caught up in it to some degree at different times of our lives…. Read more
BLINK AND THINK …. OF GOD?
We all seek ways of strengthening our relationship with God. We will do this through prayer as communication is our human way of developing any relationship. In our everyday relationships, we even have special or pet names that we use when addressing that special person. We often do this by shortening someone’s Christian name. I… Read more
YOU’LL GET BACK MORE THAN YOU GAVE
Recently the Sunday readings had two stories of the poor widows. One told the story of Elijah asking the widow to give up her last piece of bread that she and her son were to have before they would both die. Elijah said give me some and God will look after you. She did and… Read more
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE
Some time ago, I read a reflection with the above title. It went on to explain how important the first seven seconds are when we greet someone. It gave an interesting example of how powerful it is. It says when we are in the dark, we see the light before we see the carrier of… Read more
SPECIAL PEOPLE (Part 2)
Continued from last week When I speak of Fr. Les Ring, he is a contrast to Gordon in many ways. I never knew of Les prior to my seminary days. I lived in Melbourne so it was presumed that I would be a student for Melbourne. I wanted to go to the country and it… Read more
SPECIAL PEOPLE (Part 1)
I am writing to reflect on two significant dates that have been important to me. Monday 5th November is the anniversary of Gordon Stone and Tuesday 6th November is the anniversary of Fr Les Ring. Gordon died of cancer forty years ago, Les died in a car accident out on the Undera Road thirty-one years… Read more
AT HOME WITH JESUS
In one of my reflection books there is the title, ‘At home with Jesus’. I can look at this from a relational point of view and ask the question if I am comfortable with Jesus in our relationship. Otherwise I can reflect on what other ideas come to mind when I see the word ‘home’…. Read more
RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN
We often use the phrase ‘renew’ to explain something we have to do. It could be to renew our license or maybe something comes in the post with the word renewal. It is basically telling us that we need to follow this up so as to start again. We use the word conversion as another… Read more
