18th Sunday Reflection
Captured by the Russian army during World War II and accused of being a spy for the Vatican, Walter J. Ciszek, a Jesuit priest, spent...
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17th Sunday Reflection
Each one of us will at some stage have to walk into the darkness, letting go of all that we cling to in this life....
16th Sunday Reflection
The journey is inwards, returning to the cave of the heart. It is in the gloom and the darkness that we find our path back...
Mgr Paul Nadal, 88 and Still Celebrating Mass
Mgr Paul Nadal celebrated Sunday Mass at Garden Grove retirement centre in Durban. Mgr Nadal, a long-serving vicar-general in the archdiocese of Durban under the...
15th Sunday Reflection
Describing humanity and our existence as a clot of blood; deaf, blind, and unknowing may appear particularly cynical and cheerless. Yet, Jesus himself speaks of...
14th Sunday Reflection
At that time, Jesus spoke out and said, “I give you fullest thanks, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you hid these things from...
13th Sunday Reflection
Whoever cherishes father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever cherishes son or daughter more than me is not worthy...
12th Sunday Reflection
Caught in the embracing gaze of the beloved, I am surprised to find my own woundedness reflected in the suffering of the other. In the...
Feast of Corpus Christi Reflection
In Christ our contemplation focuses on the central point of time and space; as we extend our arms and our being in this union, we...
Back To Normal In Un-Normal Times
Every year, I feel a little deflated after the feasts of the Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi. It seems as if the great spiritual journey we...
Trinity Sunday Reflection
Control is wrenched from our fingers and we strike out in anger. In Plato’s darkened cave of our minds we also gnash our teeth like...
Pentecost Sunday Reflection
The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So...
