Tag: reflection
We can all help empower and affirm those on a dementia journey
This Dementia Action Week, please do what you can to reach out to those in your community who may be affected by a dementia-type illness.
May 10 2021
We need to see, and understand, a God who suffers with us
In the face of life's evil and suffering, it is only possible to believe in a loving God, if that God is ‘on the scaffold’ too, alongside us.
Apr 02 2021
Will we give up our certainty and comfort to meet God among the suffering?
Humanity is waiting for those who will find their lives - and find God - by leaving institutions behind and joining the powerless.
Mar 12 2021
Being and suffering with others helps us to understand the love of God
Standing at the foot of the cross may seem fruitless, but it is important, and significant. To speak this way is to speak of a deep unity, a deep communion, with others.
Mar 10 2021
Anxiety makes us grasp for control – but that can’t be the answer
Who could be blamed for struggling with anxiety in the current moment? But clutching at control doesn't allow much space for God.
Feb 16 2021
Crisis intervention is laudable and necessary. But it’s not enough.
People will very often fall back into coping mechanisms once crisis intervention support has been taken away. We must provide everyday love and support to those people whose lives are in turmoil, and remind them of the God who loves them.
Feb 09 2021
The year of Coronavirus gave me a glimpse of how it feels to be ‘labelled’
Being classified as vulnerable affected how I thought about myself. For the first time in my life I felt useless, unnecessary.
Jan 26 2021
Loving my neighbour means letting go of total control in my life
Having the courage to let go of my ideas, prejudices and perceived control - and become more compassionate - is where my humanity likes to engage in a tug-of-war.
Jan 18 2021
Politics in action can be ugly, but we can’t retreat from it
If we want to be involved in society, if we want to form community, we have a duty to notice what is happening on the structural scale, not just the personal.
Jan 14 2021
Becoming aware of the goodness around us
At times it seems we are pre-disposed to focus on faults in the world, rather than all the goodness that is there.
Jan 06 2021
The Passionists of the past were no strangers to pandemics
Many before us risked, and lost, their lives to minister to the sick and suffering.
Aug 28 2020
Non-violent resistance as a Passionist principle
How are non-violence and pacifism, and specifically the non-violent love of the Cross, 'good news' for those on the margins of society?
Jul 21 2020
Holy Saturday: Christ’s Descent into Hell
Holy Saturday: that gap between Cross and Resurrection has been imagined in Christian Traditions as that time when Jesus goes down into Hell to free the souls of all those whom he loves, to lead them to light and life.
Apr 11 2020
A Church of Proximity: Learning to give, and share, to serve others
A response to empty shelves, and the human proclivity to panic buy and hoard at the expense of others.
Apr 08 2020