At Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand I saw some boys and girls holding some paper and being asked to answer some questions, but in order to do that they have to run and find the answers located in different exhibitions all over the museum.
Several years ago, I was invited to attend an international interfaith conference in Italy.
The ‘Opening Prayer’ for Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time prays ‘show favour, O Lord, to your servants and mercifully increase the gifts of your grace, that, made fervent in hope, faith and charity, we may be ever watchful in keeping your commands’.
I grew up in the tropics of the south pacific in an agrarian society. We are very familiar with working the land, sowing seeds, raising crops and harvesting its produce.
THE early morning sun struck its first shafts of warmth through the panels and bezels of the stained glass wall of St Francis Xavier's Parish church near North Sydney station
Talking about the apostles Peter and Paul, we may immediately think of the two greatest missionaries of the infant church, the two founding pillars of the Christian mission.
I recently came across this story which somehow stuck with me for quite a while.
Tong, aged 13, lives with the Missionaries of Charity in my neighbourhood, just next to our Parish and the Mother of the Perpetual Help Centre in Nong Bua Lamphu Thailand. I have known him for quite some years, he joined Bible-sharing seminars and youth outings and is that kind of a teenager that doesn’t cause any trouble – others do sometimes.
In almost all cultures, we show our hospitality by offering people food. For many of us, we see food as a way to connect
Friends, we come once again to what’s been described as ‘The Preacher’s Nightmare’ the Trinity Sunday.
One of the biggest temptations amongst modern day Christians is to think exclusively about the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Holy Triune God, as if they have some secret strategies of controlling and directing her movements within and without the boundaries of their churches.
The Ascension must have been an astonishing event. As an actual happening it is attested in the Gospels of Mark and Luke, as well as in the Acts of the Apostles.
Imagine there are two people having this conversation: “If you really love me, then prove it!”
On the island of Flores, where I live, there is a home for people with special physical and mental needs. Run by the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, it is by the sea in the town of Labuan Bajo on the western tip of the island.
Just before Easter I visited the home. I was overwhelmed by the joy of the residents.
Today’s readings tell us how the early Church accepted the challenge of keeping Jesus’ memory alive in the Christian community by fashioning it into a serving and worshipping community..
On the 8th of May 2014, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has just released a very strong Statement on the Federal Government’s cruel treatment of Asylum Seekers ...