KAALAGAD Gospel Reflection – Luke 10:38-42 38As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the LORD’s feet listening to what he said. 40But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “LORD, don’t you care that my...
Early on the morning of Tuesday 13th October 2014 I had a conversation with the anaesthetist at the Hillcrest Hospital in Rockhampton. He informed me that colon cancer was the best cancer to have. Well, I thought, that is if you have a choice. As it happened I did not have a choice and was happy to take his assurances that I had a “good” cancer. He was proven correct in that the surgery later...
For seven years – 1975 to 1982 – I lived as a Catholic Missionary Priest in the Bicol provinces of the Philippines, working almost exclusively in the smaller towns and barrios. As time progressed, I was confronted in an ever-deepening way by the poverty and injustice experienced by the people I lived among in these rural areas. This became a radical challenge to my faith: in a...