I have always marvelled at the bond that Christ brings to strangers. That bond that is Christ is a communion that puts every other kind of human bond in the shade. When two people who have given their hearts and lives to Christ meet, there is a mutual recognition of the other’s discipleship and […]
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The abandonment of self-pity is the beginning of wisdom.
Dr Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor & Principal of University of Sydney. Conferral Address, 3 May 2012.
In the Christian tradition, the search for truth should always lead to doxology, and doxology leave the enquirer on her face before God. And in that place, she will find not only truth but her true humanity.
Daniel
My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. – Dan 6:22
The Giver and the Gift
Sometimes I ask God, Why are you always asking me to give things up? Weren’t these gifts from you in the first place? Why do you give just to ask me to give them up again? Would it not be better for me if you never gave them to me at all? God answers, My […]
Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “Treasure in Clay”
Carlyle was wrong in saying that “there is no life of a man faithfully recorded.” Mine was! The ink used was blood, the parchment was skin, the pen was a spear. That autobiography is the crucifix.
Friend of the Bridegroom
‘It is the bridegroom who has the bride; and yet the bridegroom’s friend, who stands there and listens to him, is filled with joy at the bridegroom’s voice. This is the joy I feel, and it is complete.’ – Jn 3:29
Give
Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do your will. Amen. (St. Ignatius […]
Journey of the Heart 