With ashened hands and heart
Scorched dry heart, mapped on the faces of young and old, rich and poor alike. Caught by a climate change of a pandemic, writes Good Samaritan Sister Marie Casamento.
Struggle in Exile
“Search out the house of your heart. Hope lies within,” writes Colleen Keating.
Hildegard of Bingen: A Poetic Journey
Hildegard puts us in touch with ecology and a sense of wonder. Her visionary theology is both grand and utterly intimate, writes Colleen Keating.
Felt in the very hairs of our souls
During NAIDOC week, Good Samaritan Sister Marie Casamento SGS reflected on the spirits of the first peoples imbibing the land in Wivenhoe where she lives.
One vote is all we have
Another year. Another federal election. Marie’s poem rings as true today as it did three years ago.
Fractured moonlight
“Fractured moonlight glints from the dark of a broken world; our whisper of prayer rises to sing the dawn. Christmas is in the air, light pierces the dark,” writes Colleen...
Metaphorical marbles
“By Christmas,” they said, “we will let them in.” In stealth, in the dark of night, by the boats of the sky, they fly.
East and West in monastic ritual
Day three, on the eve of St Benedict’s feast, prayer to the God of the Clouds rewarded, as the rains hold back enough to give safe passage to the last...
Shared history
Inspired by a visit last year to the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial, Colleen Keating wrote a poem which she read at the Myall Creek Memorial Gathering on June 10.
A matter of perspective
“Goes forth a cry in the wasteland, full-throated, determined, forceful rippling down the aeons of time… ‘Prepare the way of the Lord!’,” writes Sister Marie Casamento.
Why am I so harried with thoughts?
“Remember, this is your world, you can no longer be ignorant like a sleeping innocent baby”, “be the difference”, “reach out each day to be The Way”, writes Colleen Keating.
Extraordinarily ordinary
“The Ordinary is bedecked in the greening of extraordinary mystery, bejewelled with frost on the backs of huddled cows,” writes Good Samaritan Sister Marie Casamento.