Community: Antidote for Loneliness
A couple of years ago, I attended a men’s retreat facilitated by menALIVE. MenALIVE was founded by Robert Falzon, a Maltese warrior for Jesus who felt called to inspire men to be more active in their faith and in the Church. He started this ministry more than twenty...
When You Are Not God
A man once shared with me that he would turn to pornography when he felt down and disappointed with himself. But the trigger for his feeling this way was unclear. He could not work out what he was down about or why he was disappointed with himself. I pressed him for...
St John Paul II
I love JPII. He changed my life. I cry every time I see a video of him speaking. A few days ago, I knelt down to begin my morning prayer and opened my phone to see a photo message from a friend who had just arrived on a pilgrimage and was praying at JPII’s tomb...
Wasted Time?
Over the past few years, the Lord has been gently exposing attitudes and mindsets I possess that are contrary to living a fully Christian life. This has been a bittersweet experience. Bitter because I am proud and don’t like realising I am or have been wrong; sweet...
Keep Your Eyes Fixed on Jesus
My wise wife recently recommended a book to me. It is called To Whom Shall We Go by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. It’s one of her favourites. The book is a series of reflections on key events and encounters between St Peter and Jesus in the Gospels. He is a weak man who, at...
Simon Carrington is married to his beautiful wife Madeleine, and grew up in a large Catholic family of eight. Simon completed a Bachelor of Theology, minoring in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2016, and is currently undertaking a Certification Course at the Theology of the Body Institute in Pennsylvania, USA.
