Category: Articles
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BEYOND SECULAR RESOLUTIONS
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. (Melody Beattie) A recent survey by Forbes Health found some new year resolutions people make to be more common than others, with the most popular including improved fitness, improved finances,…
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BEFRIENDING OUR VULNERABILITY
To some extent we are all vulnerable in some way or another. To be vulnerable is to be susceptible to being wounded or hurt. To be vulnerable is to admit that we are not perfect people and each of us experience throughout our lifetime moments of brokenness, grief, disability, sadness, loneliness and anxiety. But should…
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A HOME FOR ALL GOD’S CREATURES
In an address by Pope Francis to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Pope said that “We must praise the steps being taken to improve people’s welfare in areas such as healthcare, education and communications and that we must also recognise the fundamental role that modern business activity has had in bringing about these…
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A LIVING FAITH
Karl Rahner is credited with making the statement that today one is either a mystic or a nonbeliever. This is basically true for most of us today. In his book ‘The Holy Longing’, Ronald Rolheiser says that it is no longer enough to have been born into a Christian family, to have been baptised, or…
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WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY – Beyond the Profit Line
The social, moral and economic benefits of embedding spirituality in the business formula. We all know the magnitude of the chaos caused by the disregard of sound value-based corporate cultures leading to subsequent scandals. Financial disasters like Enron, Parmalat, Lehman Brothers, and WorldCom, just to mention a few, have led to a serious re-thinking and…
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VIRTUES -The quite force of progress
In the wake of a global economic crisis, it comes as no surprise that two of the world’s most influential leaders President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown have openly professed an element so indispensable in the healing process of regenerating economic growth, freedom and a new way of life. Both have referred to…
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SUFFERING -Divine Comfort
In a small village by the name of Dovadola near Forli’ in central Italy, a little child is born, Benedetta Bianchi Porro. But her parents’ rejoicing at the nativity of their second child of six was suddenly shaken when shortly after her birth, Benedetta fell victim of poliomyelitis and was left with a crippled leg.…
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SPIRITUALITY – Spiritual Starvation
The other day I met a local business man who has been in the fashion trade for most of his lifetime. As we started talking, he let the steam out and announced the closing down of his successful outlets. “It’s not about success” he said in a low voice, “I’m simply fed up, my life…
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SPIRITUALITY – The Examen
Isn’t it difficult for us to stand still just for a few moments each day! Perhaps the most vital, yet neglected part of the spiritual life is the practice of the so-called daily examen of conscience. The daily examen is highly recommended by spiritual writers. St Ignatius of Loyola considers it almost the lifeblood of…
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SEXUALITY – Crimes of Passion
His friends call him Ronni. But to most of us, he is known as Ronaldo, the 2009 FIFA Player of the Year who cost Real Madrid a record breaking ninety five million euro to pluck him from Manchester United. On a trip to Los Angeles, less than a year before the World Cup in Africa,…
