To err (and shame) is human, to forgive is divine
Peter Day, Canberra priest, looks at the influence of guilt and shame culture in today’s difficult hyper-public ethical space.
Hope and healing after abortion
Sr Veronica McCluskie SGS, Spiritual Director and Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat Team member, speaks of the heartbreak that can follow abortion and her ministry with women and men who have found healing through that ministry. This article was first published in the April 2021 edition of The Good Oil, the e-journal of the Good Samaritan Sisters (www.goodsams.org.au) and is republished with permission.
Monstrans … Elevans … The Eucharistic Prayer
Fr Patrick Flanagan, Maryborough, VIC, explores the rubrics of eucharist.
The Eucharist: our joyful commitment to be the body and blood of Jesus
Patrick Kempton writes about the Eucharist based on his Grad Dip Theol. studies.
The Eucharist, (the Greek work for thanksgiving) as celebrated today, is structurally the same as that described in the Gospels and that described by Justin Martyr (100 – 165CE). However, its appearance and focus is often much different. Justin Martyr describes the Eucharist:
Consent and a new sexual ethic
Michael Mullins, writer and journalist, comments on the current crisis in sexual ethics in the world and the church. Can a sexual ethic be crafted in service of adult love relationships?
