'And to one God says....': a reading and reflection on the poem 'Mediations' by R.S.Thomas
Mediations by R.S.Thomas And to one God says: Come to me by numbers and figures : see my beauty in the angles between stars, in the...
'A single dead prawn': A reading and reflection on the poem 'At the End' by R.S.Thomas
At the End by R.S.Thomas Few possessions: a chair, a table, a bed to say my prayers by, and, gathered from the shore, the bone-like,...
'Was I waiting for something?': A reading and reflection on the poem 'Sea-watching' by R.S.Thomas
Sea-watching by R.S.Thomas Grey waters, vast as an area of prayer that one enters. Daily, over a period of years I have let the eye rest...
'I Go Down to the Shore' by Mary Oliver
A Reflection by Carol O'Connor I Go Down to the Shore I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are...
'The Summer Day' by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver’s famous final couplet asks a question of us and subverts it at the same time. It forecasts a future that is already happening.
'Invitation' by Mary Oliver
A Reflection by Carol O'Connor Invitation Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day...
In Church by R.S.Thomas
On Wednesday the 16th of June, Carol O’Connor led a Spiritual Reading Group session via Zoom on the Welsh poet R.S. Thomas. Four poems...
The Other by R.S.Thomas
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...
Raptor by R.S.Thomas
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...
The Bright Field by R.S.Thomas
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...
A Gift from COVID: Online Communities and Gospel Living
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...
Palm Sunday in world of Covid-19
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.
The Transfiguration: becoming 'an open singing bowl.'
‘Stay with the music, words will come in time.’ Malcolm Guite. Carmelite nun, Jewish born philosopher Edith Stein was killed in a gas...
The Mystery of How
How is a fish, bending agile smooth-silver
through the water, is the bird’s supple-slip glide,....
Maria Skobtsova: Twentieth Century Martyr
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
W.B.Yeats, Internal Silence and Jigsaw Puzzles
In order for our lives to be creative, healthy and our own actions worthwhile we need this well time spent in careful silence....
Trail Marks, Dag Hammarskjöld and the Spirit of Truth
During the Cold War period of the 1950s a unique person was elected Secretary General of the United Nations: Dag Hammarskjöld.
St Philip: Mess, Emptiness, Discomfort
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,
The wind blows where it chooses April 2020
Jesus’ words - ‘the wind bloweth where it chooses’ - is an invitation into a new way of living not governed by the ego.
Celebrating Life in a Post Party World March 2020
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...