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29 Dec 2007

Themeaning of Jesus… Fr Johnsays this reflection was first published in Perth's "TheRecord" about fifteen years ago and drew passionate responsesboth in favour of what he wrote and others wanting to haul him over hotcoals. Today he says he's not quite as angry as he was then with the institutionbut the thrust of what he wrote still holds. Rounding out his reflectionfrom last Saturday, he argues we need to find the Christ-child withinourselves. It's an argument inviting us to view Jesus as the model forour lives. [more]

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22 Dec 2007

Themeaning of Christmas… For the last two Saturdays of the year Fr John O'Keefe has two seasonalreflections which invite us to look at the meaning of Christmas throughthe eyes of children. He suggests: "Oneof the wonderful things about children is that they very soon learn toask questions. Asking questions is also an important part of becomingfully human." [more]

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13 Dec 2007

Adultism!One might well ponder if we need anymore "–isms" in theworld especially one named "adultism". FrJohn O'Keefe presents a stack of thoughts that are worth ponderingin the lead-up to Christmas. [more]

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08 Apr 2007

What is Spirituality? Due to an error on my part I had originally scheduled an Easter Sunday reflection here from Fr John O'Keefe. He had submitted a whole series of reflections which I have been posting on the discussion forum through Lent and up until Good Friday. Very late in the piece I discovered that his list did not include one for Easter Sunday when I thought it did. In its place I am republishing Fr John's wonderful reflection on Spirituality which we originally published on 19th September 2006. Fr John is a Vincentian priest based in Sydney. ...Ed. [more]

John also wrote a series of reflections which we publishedthrough the Sundays of Lent in 2007. Here are links to those reflections...

06 Apr 2007 Seeingthe Good Friday story as life-giving
18 Mar 2007 Godthe Prodigal Father
11 Mar 2007 Knowingthat we are loved
04 Mar 2007 TheTransfiguration
25 Feb 2007 Temptationand the moral law

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19 Sep 2006

Spirituality— what does it mean in a Christ-centred context? Fr JohnO'Keefe is a Vincentian priest of 49 years standing. In his firstcommentary for Catholica Australia he is exploring the questionof what me mean by the term "spirituality" — but particularlywithin a Christ-centred context. [more]