By Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD The first reading this morning from Isaiah is probably one of many peoples’ favourite passages of scripture because it is so full of joy and hope, of the promise of
By Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD The very first word in the Rule of St. Benedict is “listen” – “Listen carefully, my child, to the instructions of your teacher, and incline the ear of your heart.”
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD If we genuinely seek God’s will for life, and know God in all life, we will automatically place ourselves apart from a world of strategies and powers.
By Michael Burgess “I have fought the good fight, finished the course and kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7). In John Bunyan’s famous allegory of the Christian journey through life, Pilgrim’s Progress, there’s a moment
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few … “ There are so many people out there needing Love, sustenance,
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD The journey is not about power but the joy of being God’s own, and the love given and received as obedient hope-filled followers of Christ. St Columba, also
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD Jesus, consume me with Your love as I consume You. As a hospital Chaplain…I have been asked, what is happening when I eat the bread and drink
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD My FortressThe Sacred ThreeMy fortress beEncircling meCome and be roundMy hearth and my home. The theologian John Van de Laar writes… Once again, we reach the mysterious
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD “…who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods
By Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD I’ve been sitting with John’s version of the resurrection story for a few days now, in a stance of lectio divina as I accompanied Jesus’ friends in the few brief