Learning well: “The great secret, not often mentioned,” he said, “is that most of life is spent standing in the ...
Picturesque: The beautiful Mt Lofty near Adelaide. ON Boxing Day last year I went for a hike up Mount Lofty. ...
Precious artwork: St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. WHEN a former Governor General was baptised at the age of 85 ...
Interstellar: "Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." A FEW ...
St Patrick's Cathedral: "He had simply been made aware by the attitude of the Catholic parishioners in the cathedral that ...
Expectant hope: "Advent recalls the fact that we ought to be living with a rich, expectant hope that Christ might ...
Perhaps not: “If we truly believe that the love of God holds all things in being at any given moment ...
Hidden figures: “The Cathedral contains carved representations of hidden realities – angels – which we who stroll in our pedestrian ...
Searching: “We must instead seek the one who has a Name. The name which is above every other name.” I ...
Message: The Marriage at Cana by Gaetano Gandolfi, 1776. ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me?’ (John ...
Lion King: “Hakuna Matata – it means no worries for the rest of your days.” I THOUGHT it was just ...
Deeper question: "We choose to bother because, in the words of Pope St John Paul II, “man is called to ...
Journey of faith: “Our common student holiday this year entailed a prolonged, scenic drive along the Great Ocean Road.” “WHO ...
Saints of order: The Dominican Blessed about 1423-4, probably by Fra Angelico. WHEN attending Mass in Brisbane a few months ...
WYD Brazil beach Mass: “If we began to emphasise the beauty of the sacraments, the splendour of the truth, the ...
Following Christ: “Our lot, my brothers and sisters, is the lot of the disciples in Matthew’s Gospel – to set out ...
Seeking God: “We pray in common multiple times every day and, come the moment during lauds or vespers when extempore ...
Helping others: “At the very beginning of the Rite of Profession, having thrown ourselves prostrate, cruciform on the floor – ...
Helping others: “The preacher is not going to be too anxious about the state of his own soul, because his ...
Freedom: “This Dominican understanding of freedom is clearly opposed – diametrically – to the notion of ‘freedom’ that has been ...
Saviour of the world: The Nativity, by Fra Angelico. "Since ancient times, Christians have called the period since the birth ...
Dominican commitment: “Each friar is also obliged to recite five decades of the Rosary each week for those self-same deceased.” ...
MOTHERS with babies in their arms stood side by side with the Sisters of Mary the Morning Star to sing...
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