Jul 21, 2021 | The Spiritual Life
My mother used to tell me there was no point in growing older unless we also grow wiser. And over the years, I have seen many older people who seemed – to me – to possess something of that wisdom. It was as though their perspective on life was in some way...
Jul 19, 2021 | The Spiritual Life
Although God created every one of us as entirely unique individuals, human nature means that we tend to follow ‘examples’ of what we should be or how we might like to be. These days, such examples are often referred to as ‘influencers’. Looking around, I notice that...
Jul 18, 2021 | The Spiritual Life
Such haste, such noise. All around us, there is constant movement – all of us, dashing about and often with no clear sense of where we are trying to get to. Sometimes – perhaps even ‘often’ – we need to simply stop and come to rest for a little...
Jul 14, 2021 | The Spiritual Life
It’s a good practice to take a moment from time to time in which to reflect back upon our spiritual lives. The spiritual path is not linear – we do not leave one point and arrive at another without any deviations along the way. Rather, it is more like a zig zag...
Jul 9, 2021 | Church, The Spiritual Life
During the Jubilee of Mercy a few years ago, I had the privilege of being in Rome. During my time there, I visited many great and beautiful basilicas, filled with astonishing paintings and sculptures, many of them probably priceless. And yet, none of these moved me in...
Jul 7, 2021 | The Spiritual Life
Saint Louis de Montfort was an immense Christological and Marian theologian, his works deeply influencing many who came after him, including various Saints and Popes, amongst them the great St John Paul. Hidden amongst his writings there are very many practical gems...
Jul 6, 2021 | Church, The Spiritual Life
I’m convinced that something amazing has happening in the Church. Despite all the tales of woe and despair and things going from bad to worse in both the Church and the world – even before the pandemic struck – still something incredible was taking place....
Jul 5, 2021 | The Spiritual Life
One of the most common questions asked of people of faith is this – why does God allow suffering? And this leads to a second question – since there clearly is suffering in the world, does it have any value? Looking at the first question, suffering is part of the human...
Jul 4, 2021 | The Spiritual Life
One day some months ago and before my retirement, I was sitting in the hospital Chapel during the Hour of Mercy. It is a very simple room, with a small Altar tucked away in the corner and a plain wooden Crucifix on the main wall. Other than this – and some Bibles and...
I am a retired specialist nurse living in the United Kingdom, who enjoys writing about the living out of my faith. 
