Welcome to the 2023 Spirit Matters blog. We begin the year with three reflections based on the three affirmations in the acclamation of faith said during the Eucharistic prayer of Thanksgiving. Christ has died Exchanging a living death with a dying life For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.Colossians […]
Reclaim your Sacred Site Clear a little space In your crowded everyday And every day reclaim the Sacred Site There at the heart of you. Give the Sacred the space and time To come and sit with you To become intimate with your story. Noel Davis Stop searching, stop travelling, and you will arrive. There […]
Fr Philip Carter offers a ministry of spirituality, with a series of meditations on some questions that we may ponder as we consider our life in God. You will find here his reflections and questions for meditation, images, music and poetry to enrich your life’s journey. We need to “listen to the language of our […]
Welcome to the first post of our new weekly blog. Fr Philip Carter offers a ministry of spirituality, with a series of meditations on some questions that we may ponder as we consider our life in God. You will find here his reflections and questions for meditation, images, music and poetry to enrich your life’s […]
This post is the final in Fr Philip Carter’s series Approaching Life. It is also the final post for this year. We will be taking a break during the month of January and will see you again February 2023. In the meantime we will provide you with some links to previous posts that you may […]
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection Philippians 3:10 Death is our illusion,our wish to belong only to ourselves, which is our freedomto kill one another.From this sleep may we too rise, as out of the dark grave. Wendell Berry Image: Bruno Walpoth, Lontane speranze, (Distant hopes) 2015 Every […]
To pray is to revolt. To pray is to revolt. The one who prays is not saying, that’s the way is and that’s that!The one who prays is saying, that’s the way it is, but it should not be that way. Dorothy Soelle Our crying out is, as it was for Jesus on the cross, […]
Using and Leaving; finding out what helps or hinders As everything on the face of the earth exists to help us fulfil our purpose,we must appreciate and make use of everything that helps,and rid ourselves of anything that is destructive to our living in love in his presence. Ignatius of Loyola, Principle and Foundation Image: […]
This is a difficult country, and our home Edwin Muir ….forget your self-defeating parables. You alone have the choice among earth’s countless creatures to live or die…. Gwen Harwood Image: Corita Kent, Flowers Grow out of Dark Moments The acceptance of oneself is the precondition of all human vitality.Romano Guardini Life has a way of […]
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. Neitzche What are we here for? Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy?Isaiah 55:1 The aims of life are the best defence against deathPrimo Levi Image: Michael Winters, […]