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Many people look on death with dread, as the sad ending of it all. With Christian faith we look on it very differently, as our final journey home to eternal life with God. Our Lord has told us that he has gone ahead to prepare a room for us in the Father’s house (cf. John […]

St Paul says that God chose us before the foundation of the world to be holy in his presence. In this meditation we consider how: Our Lord’s calling us his friends demands that we should love him and strive to be more like him. The effort to be more Christlike is the struggle for holiness […]

St Paul says that God chose us before the foundation of the world to be holy in his presence. In this meditation we consider how: Our Lord’s calling us his friends demands that we should love him and strive to be more like him. The effort to be more Christlike is the struggle for holiness […]

St Paul says that God chose us before the foundation of the world to be holy in his presence. In this meditation we consider how: Our Lord’s calling us his friends demands that we should love him and strive to be more like him. The effort to be more Christlike is the struggle for holiness […]

Charity, as St Paul writes, is the greatest of the virtues (cf. 1 Cor 13: 13) but it is also one of the hardest to live. A big help in being more kind and generous is to see Christ in everyone around us. In this meditation we consider how: Christ taught us that whatever we […]

Charity, as St Paul writes, is the greatest of the virtues (cf. 1 Cor 13: 13) but it is also one of the hardest to live. A big help in being more kind and generous is to see Christ in everyone around us. In this meditation we consider how: Christ taught us that whatever we […]

Life can be like a jigsaw puzzle. With each of our actions we put another piece in place and at the end of our life we will see the finished picture, the beautiful work of art God intended for us or the discordant one we have made by our failings. In this meditation we consider: […]

Life can be like a jigsaw puzzle. With each of our actions we put another piece in place and at the end of our life we will see the finished picture, the beautiful work of art God intended for us or the discordant one we have made by our failings. In this meditation we consider: […]

Our Lord uses many parables to explain the kingdom of God, among them that of the merchant who finds a pearl of great price and goes and sells all he owns to buy it. For us that pearl is our faith in God, the light that gives meaning to our existence, that shows us the […]

Our Lord uses many parables to explain the kingdom of God, among them that of the merchant who finds a pearl of great price and goes and sells all he owns to buy it. For us that pearl is our faith in God, the light that gives meaning to our existence, that shows us the […]