
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

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