Rowland Croucher
MEDITATION ON HANDS
Note: (Allow up to half an hour ¢â‚¬“ or more, for this meditation. Have sketch pad and colored pens/pencils etc on hand too). Tonight we are going to do a centring prayer. Centring prayer is where we purposefully bring our awareness to one thing, to focus on a word, a short phrase, a Scripture, a […]
Mother Teresa: ‘Do It Anyway!’
Mother Teresa: “Do It Anyway” The verses below reportedly were written on the wall of Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta, India, and are widely attributed to her. Some sources say that the words below were written on the wall in Mother Teresa’s own room. In any case, their association with Mother Teresa and […]
Humor: Best Quotes?
Humor “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” -E.B. White “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain “A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.” -Willy Wonka “Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate […]
Dom Helder Camara: ‘Bishop of the Slums’
`Bishop of the slums’ — Dom H ƒ ©lder Camara and Brazil’s church of the poor This year (2009) marks the centennial of the birth and the tenth anniversary of the death of one of the most significant religious figures of the 20th century, an instigator of the liberation theology trend in Latin American Catholicism and a […]
Bishop Gene Robinson: MARRIAGE EQUALITY: 10 Q&R’s
MARRIAGE EQUALITY: 10 Q&R ¢â‚¬â„¢s Bishop Gene Robinson, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage, Knopf, 2012. Gene Robinson is the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s first openly gay bishop elected to the historic episcopate (2003). He was also the first and only duly elected and consecrated bishop to be excluded ¢â‚¬“ in 2008 – by the Archbishop […]
Pray for the World (November 2012 – 2)
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER SHARIA ACTION IN MALI TERRORISES THE POPULATION MAINE AND MARYLAND (U.S.A.) APPROVE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE EGYPT: WHAT SALAFIS WANT FROM COPTIC GIRLS BRITISH EVANGELICAL COUNCIL WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF NEW ANGLICAN ARCHISHOP OF CANTERBURY TEN COMMANDMENTS JUDGE GETS ALABAMA CHIEF JUSTICE SEAT BACK SHARIA ACTION IN MALI TERRORISES THE POPULATION […]
The Cardinal’s hubris (institutional power corrupts…)
Pell has failed the church and its victims Date November 15, 2012 The cardinal’s lack of empathy reflects a leadership deficit. THE Catholic cardinal, George Pell, is wrong on so many levels. In his response to the Gillard government’s decision to hold a royal commission, which will examine how allegations of sexual abuse were handled […]
Disenchanted Irish Catholics
Irish pull away from scandal-hit Catholic Church Date November 18, 2012 What angers people most is the cover-up, writes Karen Kissane from Dublin.. Loss of trust … Marie Collins was abused by a priest in Ireland as a child. Photo: Crispin Rodwell MARIE Collins was 13 and in Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children when she […]
Open Hands – a meditation
Honour Him, who holds in His hands your life and all your way. Letting go – of the past, of things lost, taken away, or never received, of bitterness over past hurts, of fear and anxiety, receiving – the gift of life today our daily bread, every good gift from the […]
Smile!
A little boy returned from the grocery store with his mom. While his mom put away the groceries, the little boy opened his box of animal crackers and spread them all over the kitchen table. “What are you doing?” asked his mom. “The box says you shouldn’t eat them if the seal is broken,” said […]
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