Counselling

I was at a medical centre recently and sitting next to me was a young lady who was waiting to get her GP’s report from her oncologist. There she was with a brightly coloured tee- shirt and [...]

Having recovered from a bout of Covid that seemed to lay me low for well over a week, I was indeed ready to get back to doing something that took me away from the negative that can so easily [...]

Tears, anger, frustration don’t easily surface with an 83-year-old, but come they do. Perhaps let me start with a Graham Greene novel I read many years back and. ‘The Quiet American’ written as [...]

I know that we live in troubled times. We do our best to cope. In a sense that is the story of life. Yet in our more serene and positive moments we discover something truly precious. We discover [...]

From the 1990s I had a bad day today. One of those days that come on top of us after a weekend away from the worksite. One of our students had been robbed at knifepoint by three Caucasian youths [...]

From the 1990s My dear friend and mentor Fr. Ted Kennedy gave the eulogy for Mum Shirl Smith at St. Mary’s Cathedral last week. His farewell words for this very special lady were most apt [...]

FROM THE DESK OF THE COUNSELLOR – JOHN HILL (1990s) I was talking to a parent today and when she and her husband were deciding which school they wanted for their children they were told by [...]

From the 1990s In a casual conversation with a teacher from Melbourne who taught at Jesuit schools in Sydney and is now at Xavier College I learnt something which I was not surprised to hear. She [...]

From the 1990s The novels of John Marsden are a source of enjoyment to many teenagers as well as to others. I refer more to his quartet of novels about the invasion of Australia. He shows in a [...]

From the 1990s Recently I came across a poem by the Sufi mystic Rumi and it read, “I sought a soul in the sea and found a coral there beneath the foam for me an ocean was all laid [...]