Where others saw someone to avoid, Jesus saw someone to love

Just a few thoughts

• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. -- Jim Rohn

• International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture – May there be an end to such barbaric practices, especially across the Holy Land, Ukraine and Russia, Sudan, Myanmar, Congo, and Baso Faso.

• We pray for the sick and housebound. May they be heartened by the loving care of family, friends and their local community.

Reflections

• Father of Mercies

• God is there waiting for us

• Making Life Count --reflection for next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• When work no longer guarantees a decent life

• What if we've been thinking about taxes all wrong?

Musical Reflection

• Take Up Your Cross

Resting our lives securely upon the rock of His word.

Just a few thoughts

• A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

• We pray on this International Day of the Seafarers, for those who have been trapped in the Strait of Hormuz, and those whose living conditions are unsafe at sea, that efforts will be made to ensure better conditions for them.

Reflections

• It is very hard to put ourselves fully behind everything we say.

• Our first reading today sounds like our present 6.00 News

• Love Is the Foundation of Hope --reflection for last Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Australia responsible for wellbeing of offshore detainees: UN report

• We must invest in peace, not war

Musical Reflection

• Lead Me Lord

His name is John.

Just a few thoughts

• Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. -- Steve Jobs

• We pray for every child conceived, that surrounded by love, their right to life and to safety will be respected by all.

• We pray for pastoral workers and volunteers ministering to those in gaol. May they help prisoners gain the beliefs and skills they need for a new future.

Reflections

• Humility is not a fashionable virtue today

• Like John…..

• Trust in God’s providence makes the virtue of courage possible --reflection for last Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Vatican rejects German bishops’ request for lay homilies at Mass

• Memorial service honours homeless who died on nation’s streets

Musical Reflection

• In His Time

The narrow Road - demanding effort, sacrifice and perseverance.

Just a few thoughts

• Success is not permanent. The same is true of failure.

• May every religion and faith may help their followers to live with integrity, so that compassion and kindness prevail over all prejudice and intolerance.

• We pray for all whose lives kindle hope in those around them. May their bright spirit dispel discontent and division

Reflections

• The narrow gate is not to be narrow-minded

• The ultimate call to compassion

• Standing up for God's plan --reflection for this Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Feeding the hungry an essential part of peacemaking: Pope Leo

• Australia may feel the shift in US-Israel politics

Musical Reflection

• Take Up Your Cross

The King’s good servant, but God’s first

Just a few thoughts

• Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.” -- Angelina Jolie

• May we look with honesty into our own hearts and conduct of life, and where we need to reform, do so in the grace of Christ.

• We pray for all who are falsely accused and unjustly convicted, that their claim of innocence will be upheld and their freedom regained.

Reflections

• All our judging, positive and negative, is about ourselves.

• Knowing when to hold fast to our beliefs

• Taking Life Seriously --reflection for this Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Hats off to participants in Vinnies CEO Sleepout

• Gaza and the failure of colonial thinking

Musical Reflection

• Come to the Water

Where does our faith belong?

Just a few thoughts

• All things are what you make them

• We pray that the final session of our Diocesan Synod next Saturday will gather together the hopes of our people, and through the Holy Spirit set the Archdiocese into the future with confidence and charity.

Reflections

• Two-minute homily

• Our sinfulness is no match for God’s love

• Frank Brennan’s Homily -reflection for this Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Catholic sector’s warning on NDIS reforms

• The tainted cup is flowing over

Musical Reflection

• Take the word of God with you

You cannot serve God and money.

Just a few thoughts

• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

• May this World Refugee Day, with its theme, Until Everyone is Safe, remind the nations of the world of their responsibility towards the millions of people who have become refugees because of war, conflict, poverty and hunger.

• We pray for the homeless and all who live in insecure and sub-standard accommodation, that the whole community will work to provide them with shelter from the winter cold.

Reflections

• God is in the here and now

• Set your hearts on God’s kingdom first

• One in Christ -reflection for Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• One umbrella, many stories: Why a "monocultural" Australia misses the point

• A New Way of Living

Musical Reflection

• One Day At A Time