Making time for prayer this Christmas
Christmas is one of the most beautiful seasons in the Catholic Church, a time filled with light, hope and joy.
Christmas is one of the most beautiful seasons in the Catholic Church, a time filled with light, hope and joy.
In 2012, then 28-year-old Bernadette Toohey, packed her bags and uprooted her life from the western suburbs of Adelaide to join the Australian-founded group of consecrated women, the Missionaries of God’s Love, in Sydney.
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As we move through the month of November we are conscious that this year is coming to closure, and we are also in the process of looking ahead to plan and prepare for the coming year.
In mid-January 2020 who would have thought that two years on we would still be encountering the unpredictability of the COVID pandemic? Who might have been bold enough to predict that fear and uncertainty would upstage certainty and hope as the default position of our lives? Not many, and yet for good or ill this is what surrounds us
The words ‘through Christ our Lord, Amen’ are familiar to us as the conclusion to many of the Church’s formal prayers.
He taught us how to pray while not knowing how to pray. That’s a comment sometimes made about Dutch theologian Henri Nouwen.
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