“I just want my $1,500 dollars,” the man complained to the agent answering the compliance hotline. “It’s reimbursement for my gas and mileage. The clinics I service are refusing to pay even though it’s in my contract, and now they’re calling into question my job...
Last year Lent exploded on us. We’d just settled into our seasonal practices - reinvigorated prayer, deeper clarity, fasting and making space - when the world was rocked by crisis. Driven inward, deprived of sacraments, isolated and uncertain, the Lenten landscape became a real desert,...
Talk shows have become a staple of daytime television, for better or worse. Some try to gear themselves toward helping people help themselves. At the other end of the spectrum are those shows that try to show people at their titillating worst....
Candice was newly assigned as pastoral associate to a parish that was challenging her since she arrived. The pastor put her in charge of the Holy Week and Easter liturgies. Candice was eager to prove herself and up to the task, organised, thorough and thoughtful....
I have the knack of selecting the wrong line at the grocery store. Once, I was next in line, with four people behind me, when the cashier announced that her register was closing, which meant (of course) that everyone behind me turned and scooted with...
Mediocre, at best. That’s how Matt felt at intermission. He loved playing piano with the jazz trio, but these past weeks had been hard. Their drummer Chris was having marriage problems. Kyle the bass player had just lost his dad to cancer. Matt had been...
Elements of this prayer ritual may be integrated into a Eucharistic Liturgy or adapted for a Liturgy of the Word or Class Prayer....
God of life and death, our prayers today are where our hearts and minds have been during these last days and where they have so often been this season; with those whose lives have been touched in differing ways by the bushfires. We pray for...
It all begins with a cry in the wilderness. In the amazing musical The Lion King (both on stage and on screen), the action opens with the piercing wake-up call of Rafiki, the wise old baboon, who calls all the animals of the kingdom to...