Living What We Pray
Reflection for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Jeremiah 20: 7-9 (RM) or Jeremiah 15: 15-21 (RCL); Psalm 63 (RM) or 26 (RCL); Romans 12:…
The Kin-dom of God: Imagining a Hope Beyond Measure
Reflection for he Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A Readings: 1 Kings 3: 5, 7-12; Psalm 119; Romans 8: 28-30; Matthew 13: 44-52. If you were trying to inspire your…
Holiness That Radiates Outward
Reflection for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time / Third Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Exodus 19: 1-6a (RM in Canada) or 2-6a (RM in the U.S.) or 2-8a (RCL); Psalm…
When Emptiness Becomes Grace
Reflection for Palm Sunday A Gospel of Palms: Matthew 21: 1-11; Isaiah 50:4-7 (RM) or 4-9a (RCL); Psalm 22 (RM) or 31 (RCL); Philippians 2: 6-11 (RM) or 5-11 (RCL);…
I Have Formed This People for Myself
“I am doing a new thing: now it springs forth.” (Is 43:9)The current global situation has stirred in me to be more attentive to God’s new acts of transformation in…
The World in Our Eyes
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker recounts a moment in her life when she was 8 years old and one of her brothers shot her in the eye with a BB…
On the Threshold of Lent 2024
In the Christian world, Lent comes, as it always does, in late winter/early spring, when the world is grey, and seasons shifting.The beginning of the 40-day Lenten season is always…
Trusting Transition
Today marks the 30th day of the Easter season! My attentiveness to these Easter days has taken on a different quality this year as recent “Sabbath” experiences1 continue to gently…
Hopes on Entering Retreat
When I made my home some years back in the vast land mass of Canada, I was amazed and intrigued by its wide open spaces, and captivated by its geographical…
Birdsong
I so often awake in the early morning, to the sound of the budgie birds who share a dwelling with me: a new day is dawning full of promise and…