Growing in Holiness
Shaped in the Potter’s hands
Most of us study and train to be the good at something, to be top of our job where we can cope with any eventuality, situation and emergency. The danger is that we who have this readiness to cope with job, family and friends may …
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The Gift of Forgiveness
As the US commemorates the 10th anniversary of the terrible events of 9/11, many survivors, the families of those killed and ordinary people still grapple with the issues of anger, forgiveness and pain. Yet many of us also go through our own internal 9/11s. Our …
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Questions and Answers
There are at least two types of questions to be asked: Questions by those who do not know something, as a student to his teacher and questions by those who do know, as an examiner to the student. However, God asks questions for other reasons …
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Deepening Our Desire for God
I am sure that speaking about desires all of us are experts for we know that within us a whole mixture of desires dwell, good and bad. However, it is a fact that we’re made like that – according to the Scripture and Catechism man …
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Erased – How to Forgive
Picture this! On our family holiday to Gozo last Summer, my mother finally committed herself to taking her new digital camera and promised to use it. It had been lying idle on her desk for ages and now she decided was the time for her …
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Change of Heart
Read Luke 14:1,7-14 It is common today to refer to something which is excellent and somewhat of a scientific genius as ‘state of the art’. Yet nothing compares to the importance of the ‘state of the heart’ because therein dwells life or death. In Luke …
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The Fruit of Love
St Augustine was known to lead a very loose and wild life before he found and experienced the love of Jesus Christ. He wrote ‘Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!’ He is also known to have …
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No Cross, No Crown
A catechism teacher was teaching young children about the Way of the Cross. When she came to explain the IV Station, where Jesus meets Our Lady, she told the class that Jesus and Mary where not able to speak to each other except through their …
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Transformed: In the Potter’s Hand
Most of us study and train to be the good at something, to be top of our job where we can cope with any eventuality, situation and emergency. The danger is that we who have this readiness to cope with job, family and friends may …
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