Reflections

  • 1 – 7 October

    Across these days of Scripture, we hear a single melody—God calling us to hope, mercy, and trust. He asks for our small yes, renews us in forgiveness, and strengthens us in community. Even in storm and silence, his light endures. Faith turns sorrow into joy, and despair into life.

    1 – 7 October
  • 24 – 30 September

    Prayer teaches us to stand in humility, trusting God’s mercy when our own strength fails. The prophets urge us to rebuild, not with grandeur, but with faith, gratitude, and justice. In fragile beginnings, God’s Spirit creates renewal. A kingdom without walls is promised—where nations gather, peace is planted, and God’s presence transforms despair into hope.

    24 – 30 September
  • 17 – 23 September

    Faith is not theory but a lived mystery. Paul and Ezra remind us that hope matures in perseverance, gratitude, and integrity. True wealth lies in contentment, prayer embraces all people, and even fragile beginnings carry divine promise. To live faithfully is to embody reconciliation, resist greed, and rebuild communities as signs of God’s presence among…

    17 – 23 September
  • 10 – 16 September

    Faith is daily renewal—shedding old masks of fear and control to embrace compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude. In Christ, love becomes the measure, humility the path, and prayer the breath that unites us with all. Leadership is not power but service, a witness that God’s mercy transforms weakness into hope and division into communion.

    10 – 16 September
  • 3 – 9 September 2025

    Faith is not theory but a living power shaping daily life. Paul reminds us that true belief matures in endurance, gratitude, and love, reconciling what is broken and transforming relationships into communion. In Christ, even suffering carries hope. To live in this freedom is to trust God’s Spirit quietly at work—renewing, forgiving, and making all…

    3 – 9 September 2025
  • August 27 – September 2

    Saul’s fall, Paul’s zeal, Herod’s struggle, and the psalmist’s vision all remind us that faith is never static. Transformation can be humiliating, exhilarating, or unsettling. Yet each story urges us to embrace change with honesty, curiosity, and imagination, trusting that God’s presence reshapes us from within.

    August 27 – September 2
  • 20 – 26 August

    Reading biblical stories isn’t enough—they need to lift from the page and live within us. Art can open unexpected doors, as in Johann Christian Brand’s 1769 painting of the vineyard workers, where creativity and scripture meet, mingling to work from the inside out.

    20 – 26 August
  • August 13 – 19 – 19th week Ordinary Time

    What if the thresholds of our lives—loss, leadership, longing—are not endings but invitations? Moses’ solitary death, Joshua’s water-crossing and the quiet joy of inner creation, these reflections ask us to go deeper. To trust the unseen, tend the spirit, and walk together into the unknown. The journey begins within.

    August 13 – 19 – 19th week Ordinary Time
  • August 6 – 12 – 18th week Ordinary Time

    Dreams, water, and sacred memory stir something deep. From Daniel’s visionary slumber to the longing that ripples through Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water, we glimpse truths emerging from the shadows. Could our own dreams—like scripture—hold echoes of the divine? These reflections invite you to slow down, listen inward, and honour the mystery.

    August 6 – 12 – 18th week Ordinary Time
  • July 30 – August 5 – 17th week Ordinary Time

    Exploring rest, reality, renewal, and responsibility. Leviticus and Numbers reveal a God who speaks honestly, expects struggle, and offers second chances. Ecclesiastes reminds us that meaning isn’t in legacy, but in presence. Nothing is lost—there’s always space to begin again.

    July 30 – August 5 – 17th week Ordinary Time

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