The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) - Hong Kong

More than any other part of the gospel the passage that describes some of the disciples in the community that Jesus formed visiting his...

Crux est mundi medicina: the cross is the medicine of the world. The lion roars in an empty tree. St Bonaventure and the Buddhist koan...

Christian thinkers have long linked the Eucharist with the Cross – Holy Thursday, when we celebrate the Last Supper, with Good Friday...

Today we begin the Triduum, the three-day kernel of the Easter mystery. Each day has a unique symbolic celebration. Today the Eucharist...

Often the Cross used to be explained as the sacrifice that paid back to God for the insult of the sin of Adam, original sin. Left...

Does this week feel holy to you yet? If not, why? Our journey through these days should first focus on accepting full responsibility for...

A centurion standing by the Cross heard the last words of Jesus committing his spirit into his Father’s hands and breathing his last. The...

He has offered one single sacrifice for sins (Heb 10) As we read the Passion Narrative in today’s gospel we do a helicopter view of the...

In the myth of the Fisher King the young knight-in-training, Parsifal, is told that good knights should speak little and only ask...

When we feel we are in a real and present danger life is suddenly simplified. A man I know was once plunged into this when a dentist...

In the late afternoon on Sunday after the Italian National Conference I was walking through Rome. A golden light bathed everyone,...

Do you remember the days when you read maps to get to where you were going? Everyone in London had an ‘AtoZ of London’ with every small...

An ongoing discussion among New Testament scholars concerns the translation of the Greek phrase ‘pistis Christou’ in a number of passages...

Yesterday I ended by saying that raising the level of human consciousness is a common responsibility both of all the wisdom traditions...

The daily news from Ukraine during this Lent has highlighted the role of military and diplomatic ‘intelligence’ about how the war is...

My reflection yesterday was about mental health and ended with a reference to austerity. Ramana had said ‘the sparkling of truth devoid...

The sparkling of truth devoid of I is the greatest austerity News of the peace talks in Turkey between Russians and Ukrainians are top of...

Jesus disturbs us by saying the rich cannot enter the kingdom. Ramana Maharshi says the same - and similarly disturbs our sense of values...

When Jesus told his disciples that it was as harder for a rich person to enter the kingdom than for a camel to pass through the eye...

Know that the pure and changeless self-awareness in the heart is the knowledge that, through the destruction of the ego, bestows...

There was a man who felt constantly overwhelmed by the ‘ten thousand things’ that Lao Tse said – and all meditators know – rush round the...

But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found....

Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, said that ‘experience is the best proof’. But what is experience? If I have some...

Tomorrow global meditators will be joining our Ukrainian community on their day of retreat. You are warmly invited to show our solidarity...

I went to get my eyes tested recently and was given a new prescription. I waited for my new glasses to arrive and was then surprised to...

I have a very nice wool-knit sweater that I have had for years and become very fond of. It fits well and is warm but not too heavy. I...

Many people who rejected their early Christian conditioning feel a combination of freedom and homelessness. If we have a home to...

Russian-speaking Ukrainians who have a database of telephone numbers in Russia are calling them randomly to speak with whoever answers...

It may bear next year. If not you can cut it down. (Lk 13:1-9) Recently I was listening to an inspiring woman speak about power and...

An obvious truth that applies equally to personal and political patterns of behaviour: unless we learn from the mistakes of the past, we...

Meditation corresponds nicely to the nature of life as a journey on which we never totally pause. There are many highs and lows, periods...

We usually think of the first aim of justice as a process of identifying and punishing the guilty. But what if this were the outcome of...

The story of the Exodus, the escape of the Hebrews from enslavement in Egypt, their forty years wandering in the desert and their...

How can you change someone’s mind? It’s usually not worth the effort and will make you only more frustrated and angry. If it does succeed...

If there is one thing this particular Lent should be doing it is to check the condition of our heart. We have enough stress tests...

As he prayed, the aspect of his face was changed and his clothing became brilliant as lightning. (Lk 9:28) The feast of the...

The long and deep process of forgiveness needs to start as soon as the harm is done. This is not a matter of will but of being prepared....

If the essential spiritual training of life (ascesis) is found in meditation, as John Main believed, why is this and how does it work?...

Pope Francis recently called on people to fast for a day in solidarity with the suffering of Ukraine. To some it may have been a sign of...

“The truth is we are Christ.” What does this mean? What difference does it make? And how can we develop this insight? It challenges the...

And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven those who are in debt to us. (Mt 6:7-15) It will be hard for the Ukrainians or for the rest...

Fear. And how not to be afraid of it. Fear is a useful natural reaction to whatever threatens our survival or well-being or those we...

He was hungry. Luke 4: 1-13 Jesus tempted in the desert This is the account of Jesus fasting in the desert for forty days in preparation...

Jesus noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting by the customs house, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything he got up...

To get a more or less accurate blood-pressure reading one has to take an average from several taken at regular intervals over a few days....

The fresh shine of anything new wears off quickly. The novelty of Lent doesn’t last long either, so we don’t have much time to decide...

Jesus noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting by the customs house, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything he got up...