A Reading by Carol O'Connor On Wednesday the 16th of June, Carol O’Connor led a Spiritual Reading Group session via Zoom on the Welsh...

A reading of the poem by Carol O'Connor On Wednesday the 16th of June, Carol O’Connor led a Spiritual Reading Group session via Zoom on...

In the spirit of adventure, early 2020 at the beginning of our first lockdown due to COVID-19 in Melbourne, I decided to attend an...

This is Jesus on Palm Sunday. Riding on a donkey in a world that really wants to push aside the reality of pain, death, disease, injustice.

‘Stay with the music, words will come in time.’ Malcolm Guite. Carmelite nun, Jewish born philosopher Edith Stein was killed in a gas...

How is a fish, bending agile smooth-silver through the water, is the bird’s supple-slip glide,....

She was a woman who believed that in ‘communing with the world in the person of each individual we commune with God.’ For her ‘each person i

In order for our lives to be creative, healthy and our own actions worthwhile we need this well time spent in careful silence....

During the Cold War period of the 1950s a unique person was elected Secretary General of the United Nations: Dag Hammarskjöld.

Faith is not about believing in an objective truth, but about hanging in there in a relationship. By keeping our gaze steady over the mess,

Jesus’ words - ‘the wind bloweth where it chooses’ - is an invitation into a new way of living not governed by the ego.

This piece was written just after the Australian bushfires at the end of February 2020, and before the Covid-19 world crisis. It was to...

Second of two addresses delivered Church of the Resurrection Mt Macedon, All Souls Day, 2019 The monks are to bear with patience the...

We grow best …not by direct and anxious conflict with our difficulties and bad qualities, but by turning to and gazing at the love, joy,...

I first encountered The Rule at the beginning of the 1990s when Esther de Waal came to Australia and offered a seven-day Benedictine...

With Christ, we are grounded in that dynamic affection of the Trinity. And it’s in this space that we can begin to see life differently. Thi

In many stories of the saints’ lives in the Celtic Christian tradition, there is this sense of God calling and drawing a person into their v

That she did not open this chapter with the name of the leading perpetrator responsible for revealing the ‘deviancy of which a modern societ

Faith It starts with an ache, with the asking, with a small pile of ash. For some, it comes by questioning, for others, by suffering,...

Epiphany, Christmas Cake, TS Eliot, Book of Job