In some mysterious way, the continuing possibility of failure is what makes games worth playing. And life worth living? Self-help writer Susan Jeffers commented that if you were magically offered the chance to know exactly how the rest of your life would unfold, you’d be a fool to accept, even if what you learned was […]

I would like to honor two women because we will be thinking about Florence Nightingale as well as Mary, the mother of Jesus.  In the calendar of saints, Tuesday, 13th August celebrates  Florence Nightingale, nurse and social reformer, and Wednesday, 14th August is the feast of   Mary Mother of our Lord. Dr Val Webb, an […]

Nelson Mandela has been back in the news lately.  The world has held its breath, waiting to hear whether this is the time for him to die or to survive a little longer as a symbol of human freedom from oppression.  Inevitably, we have heard again the famous words with which he concluded his autobiography, Long […]

People say that what all we’re seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we […]

Today we celebrate the dreams that inspired heroes of faith.  This coming Wednesday our lectionary expands this to specify Maximilian Kolbe, friar, Maria Skobtsova, Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia and Martin Luther King, worker for civil liberties.  Listen again to his words: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and […]