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Dear All Jesus journeyed from his Baptism in the John to Communion with his Father in the desert, after which he faced his three temptations in the desert. Lent, if we choose to follow Jesus into the desert of our lives, can also be a Communion with our Father in our desert, which is when our […]

Dear All This weekend each one of us is at a turning point. Do we choose to follow and live the wisdom of Jesus, or do we sit on the fence uncommitted, or do we choose to be undelivered from the evil one with whom Jesus was constantly fighting against in his life? Humankind  too, is

Dear All One of the most challenging things Jesus ever said was to “Love your enemies.”  It’s in this weekend’s Gospel. It’s part of the Sermon on the Plain in Luke not on the Mount like in Matthew. Let’s unpack these three words of Jesus. It assumes everyone of us have enemies. Notice it’s plural, not

Dear All Jesus had a mission. His mission was to initiate the Kingdom of God.  We pray for the Kingdom of God to come every time we pray his Our Father prayer: “Thy Kingdom Come.” Every single one of us baptised into Jesus, is a person called to be a co-creator of the Kingdom. The

Dear All Happy Jubilee Year. May we each develop a mindset that if life is a journey, then, because we follow Jesus, we live our life following Jesus on pilgrimage. But our pilgrimage journey of life is not just ourselves alone, we are following Jesus with other people who also are pilgrims following after him. 

Dear All One word in this weekend’s Gospel is the word, “Shelter.” It’s from the parable of the Mustard Seed. It needs to be explored and examined. We are all reading this email in a place that gives us shelter. Without it, our life would be so much more difficult.  When we go out somewhere,

Dear All And so we move into Ordinary Time. But only yesterday, was the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. And today is the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The return of Ordinary Time immediately after these two special days that focus on the hearts of Jesus and Mary is no chronological accident. No, Mother Church is silently

Dear All There isn’t a single person in the world who does not admire the generosity that they see in other people. This weekend celebrates the endless generosity of Jesus in emptying himself firstly in the form of bread and wine that we consume as Eucharist and then his generosity in self-emptying himself as our rescuer from

Dear All This Gracious Gift is early this week as I am leaving on a jet plane for a brief period of time and will not be in a position to send it out as normal on Saturday. How much does the Holy Trinity mean to us? It’s the central mystery of our faith. The simplest version

Dear Everyone The words on everyone’s lips this weekend around the world is, “Come, Holy Spirit.” It’s Pentecost Sunday!  There are many titles for the Holy Spirit that we recite in the Litany to the Holy Spirit. But I have discovered a new title of the Holy Spirit that I think is wonderful. The title