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Fr Mark De Battista says that this Gospel is a lesson about faith and prayer. Pray as if everything depended on you and work as if everything depended on God.

Mother Hilda’s story on Egyptian rug weavers saying that sometimes their most precious designs are the ones that are full of mistakes. Whatever mistakes you've managed to make thus far, God is already working them into the most intricate and precious design of your entire life.

Fr Tony Percy says that when Jesus rebukes the wind and the sea, he says, be muzzled! We could all do with a lot of muzzling. We all speak too much and listen too little.

Pete Abela says have a go at walking and praying, channeling your inner mediaeval monk provides a significant boost to your relationship with our Lord.

Fr Dave Callaghan MGL says that the term free love is the ultimate contradiction because it is the very nature of love to bind itself. To love of Christ, is to surrender my whole being to him.

Pete Gilmore says that in the Gospel Jesus uses the analogy of a doctor to say he came to help the sick. So, if I don't tell Jesus what's wrong then how can he help me?

(Mark Raue says that our simple daily decisions are connected to the wellbeing of others – and not just those in my immediate line of vision

On The Journey This Week: Fr Richard Healey says our challenge is to discern how to be the best seed-Sower for God’s kingdom. Mother Hilda on the Father’s concern for us when we are in danger of harm, Fr Tony Percy says parables give us truth as well as freedom to explore the levels of meaning in the Gospel stories. Plus, Pete Gilmore and Mark Raue

Fr Richard Healey says that the challenge remains for us to discern how to be the best Kingdom workers and Kingdom explainers that we possibly can be in our own day to ensure a rich harvest.

Mother Hilda’s story of her concern for a little boy waiting outside a pub late at night is just like the Father’s concern for us when He senses we are in danger of harm.

Fr Tony Percy says parables give us truth as well as freedom to explore the levels of meaning in the Gospel stories.

On The Journey This Week: Two great reflections on the first reading; Fr Mark De Battista (I am part of the problem) and Fr Tony Percy (dialogue of salvation). Mother Hilda on experiencing absence in your life, Francine Pirola with a tip for sustained passion in marriage, and Fr Mike Delaney and flat batteries as a metaphor on our relationship with God.

Fr Mark De Battista says that the first reading highlights admitting responsibility and accepting wrongdoing, instead of starting the blame game. Yes, we can point the finger at a whole lot of things that are wrong. But each of us is also part of the problems with the world.

Mother Hilda says that at the centre of every absence there is mystery. At the centre of mystery there is a hidden God who understands what the absence has done to us and how that the absence is actually tearing our heart apart.

Fr Tony Percy says God does not come to Adam and Eve pointing his finger, rather He asks them four questions, a ‘dialogue of salvation.’ God is helping them understand what has happened with their sinning. We resolve to let ourselves be questioned by God.

Francine Pirola say that one of the essential keys in the quest for sustained passion in marriage is a spirit of curiosity. If we feel bored in our relationship, there's a good chance that we've given up our curiosity

when most of Fr Mike Delaney’s various devices had flat batteries, he pondered the metaphor on our relationship with God. Do I come to the Lord often to recharge so that I never run flat and struggle with life, or do I run near empty hoping that I will get through without his grace recharging me?

Fr Mike Delaney says that the broken body of Christ builds unity and community. Mother Hilda stresses the need for regular breaks to pause and sit with God to be reinvigorated. Plus, Fr Tony Percy on redemptive fruits, Trish McCarthy and managing our hidden voice, and Peter Abela praying yourself first.

Fr Mike Delaney says the Gospel challenges us as the broken body of Christ to build unity and community and that we will make known the incredible power of the Risen Jesus in everything we do and say.

Mother Hilda stresses the need for regular work breaks to pause and sit with God to be reinvigorated. Go and sit down with God for a minute, let him fill up the reserve tank. You'll be amazed at the difference that it makes.