
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

By Archbishop Linda Nicholls Last Sunday (April 26th) was Good Shepherd Sunday. The Gospel and Psalm for that day invited us to consider the voice of the shepherd who knows the sheep and calls them

By Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” Jesus came to offer us abundant life – not just life, but life I abundance, overflowing with beauty and

By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD Thomas needs to be shown that his new sharing of the Way of Love will come from an astonishing, numinous moment – the bodily resurrection of Jesus.

By Archbishop Linda Nicholls One evening while I was a teacher at a school in the Indian Himalayas, I was at Bible study with about ten other teachers. We were seated in a living room

By Archbishop Linda Nicholls Although I have never been in one I have seen videos of avalanches. A wall of snow or ice or mud is suddenly triggered. The powerful force of gravity sends it

By Archbishop Linda Nicholls The older I get the simpler the gospel becomes. The things that seemed so important about living as a Christian and trying to get it ‘right’ become less significant. The arguments