Day 18: WNFIN Challenge
Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 18'There's a difference between ritual and routine'. That's a line from a talk this morning about liturgy. We'll see where it takes us.If I got it right,...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 19Warning: enter this rant at your own risk. I'll try to keep it as civil as possible, but I'm likely to fail. As the old joke goes, at least with a...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 20Warning: enter Part 2 of this rant at your own risk. There'll be more liturgical and Catholic jargon, but hopefully some useful stuff as well.On the plus...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 21It is almost safe to start reading again (rant-wise). Today I'm going to write about the damage that un-replied to emails cause. Yes, I'm guilty of this at...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 22The lights are going off.In the past weeks and months I've read a lot of articles on line, and many of the comments attached to them. For the...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 23Time for thanksgiving: It is an American tradition that we don't have here, but all Thursdays have Eucharistic overtones remembering the Last Supper, and...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 24There is only a week and a bit left before the liturgical year ends, and Advent begins once more. November, plus or minus a few days here and there, is the...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 25Anniversaries, it has certainly been a year of them! Some people go to great lengths to celebrate an anniversary, while others let them slip by without...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 26Trudging, trudging, trudging, slowly onward we go. This one is an ode to all those who are still in waiting mode.For the last six months there have been so...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 27#TakeTheAdventChallengeThat's the idea that was my distraction at Christ the King Mass. A set of relatively simple social media challenges to do for each...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 28Let us pray for our political leaders. St Paul tells us in 1 Tim 2:1-3 that our top priority should be praying for kings and those in positions of high...
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Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 29In praise and thanksgiving for sacraments, for without them we perish. God in His great mercy even honours our desire for the sacraments. The difference is...
View ArticleDay 30 : WNFIN Challenge
Write Non Fiction In November : #WNFIN Day 30On this last day of the Writing Challenge, some reflection upon the last 30 days is called for. Did I see what I hoped to see during this month of...
View ArticleHosting the presence of God
This is a rough transcript of a talk given by Lalith Perera from the Community of the Risen Lord on Sunday 19 February 2017 at Seven Hills, NSW, as part of a weekend conference marking the 50th...
View ArticleAre you feeling weary?
Some of you may have been at a talk by Patti Gallagher Mansfield or watched one online. Quite frequently if the day has been long she will get everyone to stop, and to stand, and then invite the...
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How to fight back - an open letter of encouragement to those who belong to...
Dear Friend, what you are experiencing in your parish and in your diocese is sadly rife throughout the world. Even though it has been a few years since I last visited your diocese, I recall that I came...
View ArticleDisappointment
Sadly this is something I am well qualified to write about. Maybe you are feeling the same way. Where is God? Why doesn't He take action?Of all years, 2017 with the 100th anniversary of Fatima and all...
View ArticleAre you ready? Is your parish ready?
The impetus for this blog-post is 3-fold, a confluence of a prophetic blog-post, a dove-tailing episode of The Journey Home, and the frustration of an opportunity lost to talk out these ideas with a...
View ArticleTime to dream. Time to find out whether anyone else shares the same dreams.
Here's the question: If God gave you access to $100,000 to spend on advancing His kingdom, what would you spend it on? How would your answer change if the amount were $1 million or $10 million? Assume...
View ArticleBook Review: Spearhead by Pat Keady
There's a lot to like about Pat Keady's book 'Spearhead: Reshaping the Church to Engage the Word'. But there's a dangerous 10% which concerns me greatly. Let's focus on the good stuff first:When I...
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