Category: Your Faith

Dwelling on the heartbeat of creation

We can and we must prevent the worst effects of climate change from happening, writes Pope Francis “Let Justice and Peace Flow” is the theme of this year’s ecumenical Season of Creation, inspired by the words of the prophet Amos: “Let justice flow on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (5:24). The evocative image…

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Alive with love: the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Devotion to the Sacred Heart will always be central to the life of the Church, writes Fr James Hanvey SJ The image of the Sacred Heart can be found in many of our churches. Once it was a familiar feature of many Catholic homes, as were the prayers and practices that went with it: the…

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Are objective moral values real?

Plenty of secular accounts pertaining to morality co-exist in the world today – some hold that objective moral values are real; others that moral actions can be reduced down to evolutionary behaviour; and many that morals don’t exist at all but have been created to allow for a functioning society. In opposition to some of…

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Wonder has left the building

In a poem entitled, Is/Not, Margaret Atwood suggests that when a love grows numb, this is where we find ourselves:   We’re stuck here on this side of the border in this country of thumbed streets and stale buildings   where there is nothing spectacular to see and the weather is ordinary   where love…

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The Trinity is a family of love and peace

Jem Sullivan   June 4, 2023 Trinity Sunday Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9 Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 2 Cor 13:11-13 Jn 3:16-18   Our computers and phones are meant to connect us to the community. However, through the daily traffic of communication in emails, texts, and social media posts, the digital culture in which we…

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What does it look like to hold a consistent life ethic?

A consistent life ethic takes us beyond ideas of the deserving and undeserving poor and vulnerable, writes Aimee Murphy When approached to write this piece, I first considered expounding upon my understanding of all the various issues that the consistent life ethic touches on: ending abortion, war, the death penalty, euthanasia, embryo destruction, police brutality,…

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Four distinct kinds of Christian prayer

There are four distinct kinds of Christian prayer: There is incarnational prayer, mystical prayer, affective prayer, and priestly prayer. What are these? How are they different from each other? Incarnational prayer St Paul invites us to “pray always”. How is this possible? We can’t always be praying – or can we? What Paul is inviting…

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Welcoming the Spirit this Pentecost

May 28 – Pentecost Acts 2:1-11Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 341 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13Jn 20:19-23I Deacon Greg Kandra I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone say, “Happy Pentecost”. We are so eager to send glad tidings at Christmas and Easter, exchanging gifts or food or flowers, but shouldn’t Pentecost be given its due?…

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