Climbing the Mountain Spiritual Direction

29/07/2023

We all need this reminder! 🙏

How many of us often feel God is distant from us and far away? Or that we are desiring God but feel so distant from God because of our sins ...

22/02/2023

Wishing you a blessed and holy Lent as we journey together as a Church in the battle for holiness

Blessed Ash Wednesday and beginning of Lent. Lent has begun as of today with Ash Wednesday. May we remember that this is the beginning of a...

03/01/2023

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. As Christians, our faith, our hope and our love is based entirely on the person Jesu...

22/12/2022

I have found this to be true in my own spiritual life. How about you? For most of us, our faith is lived as an obligation to fulfill, somet...

18/12/2022

In this final week of Advent, don’t let Christmas become just another consumer holiday of buying food and presents. Enter deeply into the mystery of the Incarnation and meditate on salvation history that reached the summit when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. This is not an event in the past, it is a reality that is still true for us Catholics today as it was 2000 years ago. In the Sacraments and in your prayer - stand in awe and wonder that God is truly with us!

Emmanuel - God is with us! We hear this often throughout the year and specifically during Advent that “God is with us” - but what exactly d...

03/12/2022

As St Teresa of Avila teaches us - self knowledge is very important in the spiritual life. We need to understand ourselves, know who we are,...

02/12/2022

As Catholics, the truest way to mysticism is to enter into the Liturgy. This is how to Church mystically relives the life of Christ, teaches us, moulding us and forming us to have an encounter with the One who Loves us. This Advent, learn what the Church teaches us about hope and how it relates to Christmas.

As we are almost ending the first week of Advent, you may have noticed a change in the tone of the readings and prayers this week. There has...

23/11/2022

The symbolism of the garden in the spiritual life has a rich history from the Bible itself, as well in the teachings of the saints

In two of the options for the Office of Readings today (one from St Macarius for Ordinary time, the other from St Columbanus for his optiona...

01/11/2022

I have been ruminating and meditating on this over the past few days, and finally put my thoughts down in writing. I hope this will help inspire you in your spiritual life and also rekindle the awe we should have for the purpose we have all been called to as Catholic Christians

For many of us we associate the saints as being people we look up to or aspire to be like. More often than not, the saints can appear distan...