Sep 14, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
I write with the sad news that Sr Anne Boyd csb, the leader of the Brigidines who are located across the courtyard and are owners of the Kildara Centre (the present site of Heart of Life), died peacefully on 12 September 2023, five weeks after receiving the...Sep 8, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
When Thomas More was being led to his execution on Tower Hill in 1535, a large crowd gathered to witness. Robert Bolt’s play A Man for all Seasons portrays the scene: More’s beloved daughter Meg breaks from the crowd and rushes to embrace her father, in tears. More...Aug 23, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
Continuing with our 40th Anniversary celebrations, we present Brian’s Reflections, a series of observations from Heart of Life co-founder, Fr Brian Gallagher msc. We humans are instinctively relational. We are made for relationships. ‘No man is an island,’ wrote John...Jul 28, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
Pope Francis wrote in his encyclical Laudato Si (#42): Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another. Loud bells rang for me. I lived near the sea for many years....Jun 23, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
Heart of Life calls itself a Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation. Pastoral formation is about preparing people for their pastoral ministry. But what is spiritual formation? Something to do with preparing people inwardly, preparing one’s heart and soul, one’s...May 26, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
Former chief justice, Sir Gerard Brennan, was much loved by Australia’s first peoples because of his significant ruling on Aboriginal land rights, the Mabo ruling. Senator Pat Dodson, a Yawuru man from Broome, often called the father of Reconciliation, spoke at...Apr 21, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
Editor’s Note: Continuing with our 40th Anniversary celebrations, we present Brian’s Reflections, a series of observations from Heart of Life co-founder, Fr Brian Gallagher msc. The first words in the bible are God’s words: ‘Where are you?’ The Book of Genesis tells...Mar 31, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
Editor’s Note: Continuing with our 40th Anniversary celebrations, we present Brian’s Reflections, a series of observations from Heart of Life co-founder, Fr Brian Gallagher msc. I was in New Zealand early in 2019 at the time of the massacre of Muslim people in their...Mar 10, 2023 | Brian's Reflections, News
Editor’s Note: Continuing with our 40th Anniversary celebrations, we present Brian’s Reflections, a series of observations from Heart of Life founder, Fr Brian Gallagher msc. The 2021 census revealed that 39% of Australians say that they have no religion. ...