Experience the Living Word with Bishop David Walker
Migration is not an easy or a pleasant thing for a tiny bird to face. It must turn deliberately from solid land, from food, shelter, a certain measure of security, and fly across an ocean unfriendly to its life, destitute of everything it needs. We make much of the heroism and endurance of our airmen…
Reading the Gospels with Bishop David Walker: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Bishop David Walker has spent a lifetime reflecting on the Gospels, studying Scripture, and exploring how they guide Christian discipleship. Now, he invites you to join him in a series of enriching discussion on the Gospels. 🟢 What to Expect:✔️ Weekly Gospel Video…
Ash Wednesday’s clear message is one of invitation to enter forty days of prayer, penance and almsgiving in preparation for our greatest feast day, Easter! In the early Church these forty days were a time of retreat for those about to be baptised.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were….
Here are ten quotes from Catholic saints and spiritual figures that highlight the significance of the theological virtue of charity (love).
The Christian virtue of hope is one of the three theological virtues, alongside faith and charity (love). Hope is the confident expectation of the fulfilment of God’s promises, especially the ultimate promise of eternal life with Him. It is a trust in God’s goodness, faithfulness, and providence, even in the face of trials and uncertainties….
The real mainspring of all perfection you will find contained in the precept given of old by God to Abraham: -Walk before me, and be blameless” (Gen. 17:1). The presence of God will calm your spirit–it will give you peaceful nights, and tranquilize your mind even amid the hardest day’s work; but then for this…
God never makes you suffer unnecessarily. He intends for your suffering to heal and purify you. The hand of God hurts you as little as it can. Anxiety brings suffering. Sometimes you are simply unwilling to suffer, and you end up resisting God’s work. If you put away all your restless longings and your anxiety,…
What I have noticed with doves is that they mourn in the same way that they rejoice, and that they sing always the same note, both in their songs of joy as in the songs in which they lament and express their complaints and sorrow. Whether they be joyous or sad, they never change their…
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. It’s surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which is not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping…