ThinkingFaith

When Dallya started working at JRS UK, she found a welcome that she now delights in offering to the refugee friends whom JRS accompanies. audioboom.com/posts/8906958-…

We're thrilled that our latest podcast guest is one of @jrsuk's team! Find out more about their work: jrsuk.net

Mary brings God into our orbit; she is the ‘world-mothering air’ that surrounds us. thinkingfaith.org/articles/enfol… #MaryMotheroftheChurch

Colm Tóibín’s 'The Testament of Mary' presents a first person narrative by the mother of Jesus situated in the aftermath of the crucifixion: ‘memory fills my body as much as blood and bones’. Reading for today's feast of Mary, Mother of the Church: thinkingfaith.org/articles/book_…

'I imagine Mary being consoled by everything good about being a woman that comes down to her through aeons of daughters of Eve.' thinkingfaith.org/articles/all-a… #feast

Mary’s is a ‘high motherhood’, for from the beginnings of Christianity, the cosmic role of Christ was believed to have been shared by Mary, in whom the Word of God took human form. thinkingfaith.org/articles/enfol… #MaryMotheroftheChurch

Our first reading on today's feast of Mary, Mother of the Church is about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. thinkingfaith.org/articles/all-a…

The Testament of Mary: thinkingfaith.org/articles/book_… #feast

Today is the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church. Through Mary, femininity is in some sense divinised and motherhood raised to the same level as the fatherhood of God. thinkingfaith.org/articles/enfol…

What links Eve and Mary in their mother-daughter relationship? thinkingfaith.org/articles/all-a… #feast

In times of darkness: thinkingfaith.org/articles/times… #Pentecost

Pentecost is a celebration of the mysterious movement of God in our lives through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit: thinkingfaith.org/articles/20130…

‘All of us who live from the gift of faith are witnesses of hope – a real, practical hope, which is not trapped in the old patterns but can realise new possibilities.’ thinkingfaith.org/articles/times… #Pentecost

How did a Jewish harvest feast acquire new significance & change over time to become Christian Pentecost? thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090…

Sr Teresa White came across a useful analogy to help us to contemplate the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives: thinkingfaith.org/articles/20130… #Pentecost

What does the account of the descent of the Spirit in Acts tell us about the paschal mystery in the Church's life? thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090… #Pentecost

Today we celebrate Pentecost - happy feast! James Hanvey SJ draws our attention to the work of the Spirit to bring us into communion with one another, a communion in which we see Christ in every hopeful or sorrowful face. thinkingfaith.org/articles/times…

How did the feast of #Pentecost develop into the form our celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit now takes? thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090…

We cannot comprehend the sending of the Spirit without recognising how it relates to the Easter event: thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090… #Pentecost

Story, theology and drama in the #Gospel of John: thinkingfaith.org/articles/story…