Understanding Mary as a god-bearer opens up new possibilities, for we can all be god-bearers, carrying God’s love and longing for justice into every place that we go.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Spirituality
God meets us in the midst of our worst nightmares, calling life out of death, but seldom in the ways we might most wish for.
Much of reality is usually hidden to us, but we can catch glimpses that become sustaining visions.
God approaches us in an eager desire for communion, so our task is not to strive for communion, but simply to open ourselves to receive it.
God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.
Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.
The life Christ call us to is not found by seeking to recover the past or escape from the past, but by opening ourselves to the new things God will do.
There is life and nourishment hidden in the depths, and through Jesus the rock it is accessible to us.
The sacred is all around us and within us, but don’t make the mistake of trying to regulate it.
Extravagant devotion to the crucified Christ is the foundation of our compassion and care for other victims of the world’s callousness.
God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.
With Jesus as our pattern, we find a new identity in our uncompromising allegiance to God’s ways.
When we recognise Christ’s presence in the Eucharistic liturgy, we will bring the sick in search of healing.
When we detach from things, God comes to fill or possess us by God’s Spirit, and suddenly the world is full of life once more.
God has promised that if we stay connected to him, then he will give us the energy and the love to go out from our comfort-zones into the alien territory of those who need God’s love most of all.
In the elusive quest to know Christ, spiritual disciplines are a valuable means, but can also easily degenerate into idols.
God calls us to detach, to empty ourselves of desire, to die with Christ, so that we may truly welcome Christ when he returns to his appointed home in our hearts and souls.
God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.
God sees us, the baptised, as having the appearance of Christ, which gives us reason to believe in ourselves and live up to it.
Knowing Christ intimately is the most important thing of all, but many of our otherwise good gifts and concerns are constantly getting in the way.