Lectio Divina – Weekly Video Reflections on the Sunday Gospel
We invite you to participate in the Gospal reflection for the next Sunday with Bishop David Walker, Fr John Frauenfelder and Virginia Ryan.
These Lectio Reflections provide the framework to develop our faith life. Our faith is in Jesus who comes to us as the human face of God. Faith life is human life lived in a deeply personal and intimate relationship with Jesus. Jesus is our friend and lover, the most significant point of reference in our life. We need to lead our life conscientiously and intentionally so that all that we do is done within the context of our love relationship with Jesus. Lectio Divina is one of the ways we can develop this.
The Virtue of Charity
The Theological Virtue of Hope
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…
On the Presence of God
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…
The Purpose of Suffering
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…
The Need for Patience
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…
The Fish in the Sea
The Fish in the Sea 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…
Articles & Writing from Bishop David Walker
Christmas Serenity Prayer
Sometimes the expectations, the busyness and last-minute pressures of Christmas can frazzle our nerves and…
Lectio Reflection – Second Sunday of Advent – Luke 3:1-6 (Year C 2024)
It’s all about the Crib
I read an article by Fr Nicholas King SJ awhile back and he asked an…
Lectio Reflection – First Sunday of Advent – Luke 21:25-28; 34-36 (Year C 2024)
On a pilgrimage to Paris
On a pilgrimage in Paris last year, I was deeply moved by the legacy of…
