You give them something to eat.

Just a few thoughts

• I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain -- Muhammad Ali

• As we begin our Australian National Vocations Awareness Week, may we support married life, pray for life’s choices among youth and young adults, and seek the blessing of priests, deacons and religious to lives of service.

• We pray for every child in every land, that they will be given their daily bread and have all hungers satisfied

Reflections

• Two-Minute Homily

• He had Compassion for Them

• Frank Brennan’s Homily

The Signs Of The Times

• No one should be treated as a commodity

• Responding Together

Musical Reflection

• Hearts On Fire

A life spent serving Christ and his people.

Just a few thoughts

• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie

• May peace come across the Middle East through setting aside the weapons of war, constructive dialogue, genuine justice, and respect for the humanity of friend and foe.

Reflections

• Nobody should be intimidated by Politicians

• Responding with compassion and solidarity.

• Feast of St Ignatius Loyola

The Signs Of The Times

• Why are people so angry these days?

• International Day of Friendship

Musical Reflection

• Companions on the journey

The missionary zeal of the Jesuit order

Just a few thoughts

• “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” -- Willie Nelson

• May we not judge by appearances,  but rather, with the gift of wisdom, recognise the uniqueness of every individual. 

Reflections

• Helping those who are ready to be helped

• Disturbing our prejudices

The Signs Of The Times

• Catholics encouraged to identify themselves in annual census

• How Jesus Uses Scripture

Musical Reflection

• Love Divine, All Love Excelling

A Father who shows no partiality

Just a few thoughts

• However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. -- Willie Nelson

• May this International Day of Friendship help us to value our friends and to reach out to the lonely in a spirit of genuine friendship.

• We pray for all who work in the delivery of government services, that they will treat their clients with respect and be well respected in return.

Reflections

• We all have to be both conservative and progressive at the same time!

• Drag the net, collect everyone and leave it till later to sort things out.

• Focusing the Gospel --reflection for next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Jesus Christ Superstar – great music, limited theology

• Celebrating Mary MacKillop in August

Musical Reflection

• Love Is His Word

A special family

Just a few thoughts

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi

• May the example of Martha, Mary and Lazarus bring blessings upon each of our families, so that brothers and sisters can be friends, and that healing by restore broken bonds.

• We pray for the diverse nations in Australia’s neighbourhood, that they will share an unshakeable commitment to care for the earth, our common home.

Reflections

• Jesus wept.

• Trust in God

• The pearl beyond reckoning --reflection for this Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Technology must serve truth and the common good: Pope Leo

• Seventy-five years on, the Refugee Convention still matters

Musical Reflection

• Lord, you give the great commission

The Divine Gardener

Just a few thoughts

• Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer – a poorer economy, a poorer civilisation, because of this human and national waste. -- Gough Whitlam

• May God look with great mercy on those  whose lives are entwined with evil, so that they can be saved. 

• We pray for the powerless, that the suffering inflicted on them by war, poverty and a changing climate will be relieved by a new global movement of justice and peace.

Reflections

• We don’t have the full picture.

• The sinner and the saint live side by side.

• What do we live for? --reflection for this Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• The “Just War” and the Recent Popes

• Pope urges young people not to be ‘couch potatoes’

Musical Reflection

• Where Charity and Love Prevail

The smallest acts of kindness…….

Just a few thoughts

• One man can make a difference and every man should try.” -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

• May the Spirit of Jesus permeate the whole Church so that it becomes known as a community of genuine love

• We pray for leaders in all the world’s great faiths, that they will demonstrate discernment and integrity in their exercise of moral authority.

Reflections

• There's more hope for us not-ok people than we dare imagine.

• Gardener's Glory and Baker's Delight

• Exchanging everything we have for the sake of the kingdom --reflection for this Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

• AI developments require ‘new spiritual, ethical and political framework’

Musical Reflection

• Come to the Feast