Christ is risen To know Christ, to experience the power of his resurrection Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices, and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator. Colossians 3:9-10 Bored […]
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 […]
The themes of Advent are hope, peace, joy, and love. At St Mary Magdalene’s we are offering a contemporary reflection time on Wednesday mornings (Nov 30, Dec 7, 14, 21). We will start at 8.00 am and spend about half an hour together, sharing in a short introductory reflection, time for silence and a chant […]
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 […]
The themes of Advent are hope, peace, joy, and love. At St Mary Magdalene’s we are offering a contemporary reflection time on Wednesday mornings (Nov 30, Dec 7, 14, 21). We will start at 8.00 am and spend about half an hour together, sharing in a short introductory reflection, time for silence and a chant […]
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, […]