Thought for the Week – Basin Theology

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A layman said to a priest after Mass one Sunday,
‘You preach a lot about giving
but when you get right down to it
Christianity is all about [Read More]

Thought for the Week – Meat of the Tongue

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There was an African king whose wife was sad and sickly. One day the king saw a poor fisherman whose wife was a picture of [Read More]

Thought for the Week – Are we there Yet !

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“Are we there yet? Are we there yet?”, was the constant refrain launched at my parents from the back of the car. “Nearly”, was the [Read More]

Thought for the Week – Staying in the present

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Most of us are so busy
planning the future
that the ‘present’ simply
becomes a means of getting there.

Being ‘here’
but trying desperately to be ‘there’
and frantically planning
how to [Read More]

Thought for the Week – How Attentive are we ?

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HOW ATTENTIVE ARE WE?
Psychologists at Cornell University did an experiment to test how attentive we are. They went out and stopped people on the campus [Read More]

Thought for the Week – The Living Plant

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In the 1970’s, the Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer and her team conducted a series of experiments.
They asked a group of elderly people in a [Read More]