Come and Sit With Me!
As I gaze at this image of the beautiful bronze statue, which sits outside the showers and Mother of Mercy Clinic in St Peter’s Square, Rome, I see familiar scenes…
Love Stronger Than Death
Perhaps it is my age. I will turn eighty in July 2025, and I am becoming increasingly aware of death. Death as a reality that comes for me too. Death…
The Poor Widow’s Offering
Reflection for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: I Kings 17: 10-16 (RM) or 8-16 (RCL); Psalm 146; Hebrews 9: 24-28; Mark 12:…
An Option for the Poor
A Theology of Liberation In 1973, Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez’s ground-breaking A Theology of Liberation was published in English. This wonderfully erudite yet readable publication invited disciples of Jesus to…
“And There Was No Room For Them At The Inn”
In recent years, I have been more involved in working with politically and economically disenfranchised New Zealanders which includes in worrying rising numbers the homeless. Their situation is distressing and…
Reflection for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost C
Amos 6: 1a, 4-7; Psalm 146; 1 Timothy 6: 11-16 (RM) or 6-19 (RCL); Luke 16: 19-31 In 2009 I accepted a longstanding invitation to visit the St. Ephrem Ecumenical…