How to Keep New Year’s Resolutions
In case you hadn’t noticed, this week was the time of New Year’s resolutions. A tradition in which a person makes a promise to do an act
In case you hadn’t noticed, this week was the time of New Year’s resolutions. A tradition in which a person makes a promise to do an act
There’s an article doing the rounds on Social Media at the moment. It is titled “Why I Didn’t Invite Family Or Friends To My Wedding”.
Marriage. A journey with the person you love, giving yourself freely, without reservation, in a life giving relationship for the rest of your lives. A
Disclaimer: This piece is written in the style of a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew a junior demon, Wormwood. This is based on C.S.
“We have so much time, and so little to do… Stop, strike that, reverse it.” – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I have a
Dear Silence and Solitude, I miss you. Over the past few years I have seen our time together dwindle. From long periods a few years
With the call to the new evangelisation, how do we pass on the faith in today’s world? In his 2014 Message for World Communications Day,
We live in a modern world. We are often blinded by distractions and every now and then we need to be reminded of things that
How happy really are we today? How do we define that we have really ‘lived’? We live in a marketing led world – a place
One of the downsides of being pro-life in 2013 is the negative stereotyping. Being”pro-choice” is so normalized and they seem to have the popular debate
In the Year of Faith I was asked by my local Catholic newspaper to write about what faith means to me. Here’s my thoughts: Faith
Lately I”ve suffered from writer”s block. I have no inspiration for what I”m most passionate about and normally makes me feel better – putting words
Abnegation. To be honest until recently I had no idea what that word meant. And probably not surprisingly since it is an idea that isn’t common
It is not long to go until World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And what a World Youth Day it will be. The first
In honour of Mother’s Day… A fellow writer recently asked somebody to write something positive about motherhood. She said “Some of us not-yet-moms are scared
“Accustom yourself to pray this way and, God grant, soon you will nurture true prayer in yourself. Then there will be no need for rules.
Early in my “Catholic Career” (I became a Catholic in my late teens) I was given a book by my spiritual director that changed my
I’ve been reading a book of the letters of Blessed Zélie Martin titled A Call to a Deeper Love. There”s much I could say about