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From FR MICHAEL The salt identity is for the benefit of the world/ earth. Our lives are a mission to bring zest and meaning to the earth. What is wasteful is to lose this ultimate purpose and passion, to forget this high calling and be reduced to a shrivelled identity. This can happen, but we […]

From FR MICHAEL We hear the Beatitudes in the gospel of St Matthew. Jesus teaches the people to look forward to the mercy and love of God. When we breathe into our restlessness and dis-ease, there is an immediate shift in our self-awareness. It can happen quite quickly. This is an experience of tangible grace. […]

From FR MICHAEL The response of Jesus to the arrest of John the Baptist is the beginning of the public life of Jesus. Indeed, the response is not to run and hide, but to settle down in the territory of Herod, who had John put in prison. Jesus walks into a land that was in […]

From FR MICHAEL The world is alienated from God the Creator by the actions, or inactions, of humanity. Jesus comes into the world to reconnect all humanity and creation. Jesus is the WORD of God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – and enters into the Creation that he spoke in order for it to […]

There has always been a creative tension in the way Christians relate to Jesus Christ. On one hand, Jesus is the unique Son of God irreplaceable and beyond imitation. On the other hand, Christians belong in the identity of Jesus Christ, continuing his presence on earth and imitating his way of life. Therefore, Christians are […]