Prayer to Spirit Sophia

Tender Spirit Sophia, Wrap me round with your love.  Ready me for risk.  Fierce and wonderful you are.  Free me, Spirit Sophia, So that I might serve as you would have me serve.  Amen Taken from: “Prayers for a New World” by Betsy Clarke,...

Samson and Delilah

Last week the three of us saw a powerful movie, “Samson and Delilah”.  A reviewer in the Melbourne “Age” said this of the film, “Salvation comes through self respect, faith strength of character.” I doubt the reviewer was talking...

Heroes and Heroines

There are two questions: 1. Who are our heroes and heroines? 2. What makes a person heroic? When we ask one another who are our heroes most of the answers can be included in one major category,  We list those who have done extraordinary things – in sports, in...

Happy Mothers Day!

I wish all my friends who are mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers….a very happy Mother’s Day.  Today in the homily which Nick and I gave together, we used the Gospel account of the vine and the branches comparing it to the umbilical cord with which...