• It Is Through The Face That We Encounter God
• A Message of Hope
• Waiting
• An Octopus at Easter.
• Invite relationships
• Transformation
• This Moment
• A Good Story
• Can I Be A Healer?
• The virtue of doubt
• Mary Mackillop, Woman Of Faith
• Fridge Doors And The Rest Of The World
• Entertaining Angels
• More connected than ever, more disconnected than ever
• Feast of Teresa of Avila, 15th October
• The Witness of Maternity Leave
• Something New
• Farewell
• Australian Catholic University is a Public University Open to All
• What if God Was One of Us?
• Zest for life
• Attendance
• Christmas Angel Tree
• A Present For Me
• On being famous
• Reason To Celebrate
• World Youth Day
• May the evening's twilight find me gentle still
• Goodness: God’s Gift To Us
• A time for every purpose under heaven
• The Mad Dash
• The Positive Spirit is Fully Alive
• Its time to change
• Living an Abundant Life

We have a week of celebrations ahead of us beginning with the “wearin’ of the green” (St Patrick’s Day) on Monday and culminating in the Resurrection of Jesus on Sunday with Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday to pass through on the way.  It is almost too much.

The Catholic Church in Australia, of course, had strong Irish beginnings and that can be both good news and bad news!  Our catholic Irish heritage is something many of us rejoice in with its blend of optimism and pessimism in fairly equal measure.  The following prayer captures some of this delightful ambivalence:

Loving God,
Give me a few friends
who will love me for what I am,
and keep ever burning
before my steps
the kindly light of hope...
And though I come not within sight
of the castle of my dreams,
teach me to be thankful for life,
and for time's olden memories
that are good and sweet.
And may the evening's twilight
find me gentle still.

And so throughout this week despite the rigours of Holy Week - or because of them - may we be found gently at the Resurrection on Sunday.  Happy Easter to us all!

Antoinette Collins, Theology, Strathfield