Feb 16, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, On many occasions I emerged from a spiritual director’s rooms with an overwhelming sense of relief. There was a spiritual way and I was on it after all. This is not to say in an arrogant way I had everything sussed. I was feeling genuine relief...
Feb 9, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, This coming Sunday is the last before Lent. I haven’t worked out what symbolism can be found in Ash Wednesday (beginning of Lent) falling on St Valentine’s Day – or Easter Day on April Fool’s Day this year. It’s crossed my mind both Valentine’s and...
Feb 2, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone! Happy New Year. Welcome to 2018 The year has started with auspicious signs, a heatwave, an almost-cyclone and a super, blue, blood moon! The latter is a real problem as all those things you think you will do once the blue moon is here are now due! ...
Dec 23, 2017 | Weekly e-news
Do you think, (expecting a baby and all) that Joseph and Mary got their Christmas cards out on time? Hello everyone! Yes we are meeting 10am Christmas Eve morning! Very few sleeps left to go now! It’s an unusually shaped Christmas with a Sunday Christmas Eve. We...
Dec 15, 2017 | Weekly e-news
Bittersweet Christmas Hello everyone, Christmas is such a bittersweet time. It’s sunny but the farmers need rain. It’s family time, but illness or distance make that difficult. It’s giving time but the bank balance can’t just do it… But… At the children’s nativity...
Dec 12, 2017 | Weekly e-news
Thursday this week Pat Booth and I attended the Justice Select Committee hearings to represent you, supporting our written submission on the Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill. We were first up with the public...