Experience the Living Word with Bishop David Walker
Thank you, Papa Francesco thank you. I will continue to pray for you and continue to be grateful for the way you took seriously Jesus’ direction, “Feed my sheep.” You feed your sheep, through accessible and inspiring words and more importantly through your exemplary deeds. It was with curious expectation that in 2013 I read…
Exploring the roots of a long-standing tradition is not just an academic exercise of delving into the past but understanding the relevance of key concepts for us today. In the 1st and 2nd centuries, the fast before Easter was compulsory. The whole community kept a 40-hour fast on the Friday and Saturday before Easter Sunday…
What a great question. I have grown to love the ancient words and stories of the Bible. I love to ponder them and am amazed at how these words resonate within me; they echo through my day. I read the Scripture because I love watching the way Jesus interacts with so many different men and…
I find solace in the familiar rhythm of the shoreline, the gentle lapping of waves against the sand. Easy. When I ponder the Gospel reading for the coming Sunday, Luke 4: 1-11, it directly challenges me to leave the shoreline and go into the deep water. Into that dark blue water with the hard to…
Sometimes the expectations, the busyness and last-minute pressures of Christmas can frazzle our nerves and undo our joyful intentions. About ten years ago a wonderful colleague and friend, Marty Scroope shared this prayer with me. This be the ideal prayer to pray just before we start cooking the turkey, glazing the ham, cutting the fruit,…
I read an article by Fr Nicholas King SJ awhile back and he asked an interesting question: what was the first Christmas like? He suggests that we like to imagine what that very first Christmas was really like for the young couple Mary and Joseph. I think it captures our imagination in a very particular…
Love That Transforms: Embracing the Heart of Christ In today’s fast-paced world, where moments for introspection can be rare, the message of love often gets overlooked. Recently, I found myself deeply moved by Pope Francis’ latest Encyclical, Dilexit Nos, which explores the profound connection between human and divine love, especially through the Heart of Jesus…
School holidays are a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues you haveworked with over the years – you may leave a school but you never leave the people you have worked shoulder to shoulder with in the pursuit of educatingour young people. And so we gathered for dinner and the conversation flowed. One of…
A number of years ago I read an inspiring reflection by Sr Hildegard Ryan OSB. It has stayed with me over the years because it gave me a sense of hope in the midst of suffering. She makes it clear that we are first called to evangelise ourselves and continue the process on a daily…
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”– Meister Eckhart I have absolutely nothing in common with Meister Eckhart: Eckhart who was born in 1260 in Hochheim (Thuringia). He entered the Dominican Order and received most of his education in the Studium Generale in Cologne. But this quote was a…