The role of a mother is vast: a mother tends, nurtures, encourages, teaches, forms, corrects, cares for, protects, provides, calls forth, cleans, orders, cuddles, and repeats - every day, week in week out, month in month out, year in year out - for years!! Much of this activity is done alone. Much of her work … Continue reading Mothers need Mothering
Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum - Lk 1:38 FIAT. Such a small word meaning ‘let it be done’. It almost sounds weak and submissive, where could it possible fit into our world of Power-House Women? Surely, this phrase of ‘let it be done’ is more of a last resort - ‘I give up. Whatever happens, … Continue reading The Freedom of a Fiat
This page has been a little silent in recent times. We have been mulling over what to share. What we need. Some of these things we will let you know over the course of the rest of this week. But for now, we just wanted to makes sure you had the chance to read what … Continue reading In These Times
“There we hope to enjoy for everThe fullness of Your gloryThrough Christ our Lord,Through whom You bestow on the world all that is good.” Eucharistic Prayer III The Visitation - Carl Bloch I am drawn to goodness.In my endeavours I unconsciously look for it; in books, ideas, films, friendships. Goodness is that irresistible quality where … Continue reading The Fruit of a Promise Made to God
The wonderful team at Virtue Ministry have put together a mini-retreat opportunity for you! We here at Anima are always happy to promote anything that helps to focus our lives on Christ and learning His purpose for you. We’re all getting used to living a busy kind of lifestyle with back to back appointments, opportunities, … Continue reading Reboot Your Life – A Mini Retreat Brought to you by Virtue Ministry
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I have been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - … Continue reading Learning Life’s Lessons Through Simplicity.
“There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.” J.R.R. Tolkien Most of us are familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings, having either read the books … Continue reading The Seed of Courage – Tolkien’s Hope in Abiding Apocalypse
hubris: hjuːbrɪs: excessive pride or self confidence • (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. nemesis: ˈnɛmɪsɪs/ the inescapable agent of someone's or something's downfall. We live in a time of hubris. As a society, we have become enamoured with the goal of self actualisation. Apparently, this is … Continue reading Do You Know Who You Are?
What do you get when you put a fiery redheaded Texan woman, her husband, their unlikely conversion to Catholicism, and their six children together? You get One Beautiful Dream, which tells the shambolic and endearing journey of Jennifer Fulwiler in writing her conversion story Something Other Than God. Yet her latest release is more than … Continue reading Cultivating The Passion In Your Heart is Not An Impossible Dream – Book Review
The handing on of our faith to children has always been important, but we live in an age where relativism has confused the issue. How we feel about something seems to have more prevalence than the truth. In his recently published book, Educating in Christ , Dr Gerard O'Shea, from the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, … Continue reading Body, Heart and Mind – The Keys to Moral Formation
