Liturgies
Monday, September 8th
The price of becoming the thinking Ape.
Today’s Gospel is probably one of the most important pieces of scripture in the entire Bible. It states that after loving God, to love our neighbour as ourselves. The importance of loving ourselves cannot be over...
Monday, August 18th
Creating Our Amazing Future.
Creating Our Amazing Future. DEVELOPING YOUR RESILIENCE Can I please ask: Who in this room has ever had a problem??! Strangely enough, there is some merit in having problems. They help you to define your character. They...
Thursday, July 17th
The history of religion dominated by the need to control
What I want to share with you today is a little about the Politics of Religion. A priest was being honoured at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician...
Tuesday, June 24th
The importance of Interdependence by Carolyn Vincent
We must all learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in a single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And...
Wednesday, May 28th
Jesus Then and Jesus Now. Looking for Jesus finding ourselves.
Let me begin by bringing greetings from the Christian community in Palestine, and especially those communities with which I am most familiar: St Luke’s Anglican Church in Haifa and the Sabeel community in Nazareth. This...
Monday, May 19th
Mothers Day; A day to stand up for peace.
Today is Mother’s Day. We began to celebrate Mother’s Day in Australia in 1924 following the lead of the USA by celebrating on the second Sunday in May. This celebration began in the USA in...
Wednesday, May 7th
New Beginnings; Old Awakenings
One Sunday morning a mother went in to wake her son to get ready for church, to which he replied, "I'm not going.""Why not", she asked?"I'll give you two good reasons," he said.(1) "They don't...
Tuesday, May 6th
To Resurrect is an invitation to wake up
An elderly man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favourite biscuits wafting up the stairs. Gathering his remaining strength, he lifted himself...
Thursday, March 13th
LENT; AN INVITATION TO RETURN TO THE SOURCE
Cate Blanchett’s Oscar winning performance portraying Jasmine, a former New York socialite whose life has imploded in the wake of her wheeler-dealer husband’s imprisonment, has links to today’s gospel story of the Prodigal Son.With a...
Monday, February 10th
LESSONS FROM GUERRILLA GARDENING
Today I would like to share some of my learnings from Guerrilla Gardening as I feel they connect with today’s Gospel. First, a story … An old Italian man lived alone in New Jersey . He wanted...