Topic: Jesus of Nazareth
Prayer for Justice
August 5, 2022 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Prayer for Justice We live in hope that your words and actions Jesus of Nazareth when you were in the world inspire us and many more to follow your example, to do justice to all, to help victims win justice in the courts, and lift up their hearts and spirits when they are believed when […]
Read More...Can We Believe and Achieve the Resurrection?
April 4, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Christians have celebrated the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, we have recalled the dramatic events in that life of one who brought into the world the unconditional, self- sacrificing love that makes us so human and so divine. When we love others like the Good Samaritan, generous, self-giving to a stranger, to […]
Read More...Helping Others is Our Path to Happiness
March 29, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
What brings out the crowds to cheer on a hero, a liberator, a Messiah like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and the greatest of all, Jesus of Nazareth, and many more. All but one of the above was executed or assassinated and all were brutalized and jailed unjustly for their beliefs and mission. […]
Read More...Valentines Day, Yet Again
February 10, 2012 ·
It is Valentine’s day yet again and it is time to think about the meaning of life and love. The media and most of society will be absorbed with the romantic emotions of human attraction and their connotations and sexual innuendoes. They are not in themselves the essence of a loving relationship. They are the […]
Read More...Jesus, the failed Messiah?
December 21, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The truly amazing thing about the birth of Jesus Christ, called the Messiah, Son of David, Son of Man, Son of God, Saviour, Teacher, Rabbi, Master, healer, as he is named throughout the gospels, is that he never claimed those titles for himself other than the simplest thing of all, “Son of Man” which means […]
Read More...Christmas is Freedom
December 7, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
There is a lot about Christmas that the world doesn’t know, doesn’t want to know or conveniently forgets in its pursuit of pleasure, possessions and power. And that is, that the “Christ” in Christmas was a person, fully human and Son of God, demanding an end to greed and exploitation.
Read More...Can the Guilty Rich Repent?
September 28, 2011 ·
The photograph of Juanito, a street boy, 14, dressed in nothing but dirty shorts, his only earthly possession. He was poverty personified.
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