ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL SYDNEY, 9 FEBRUARY 2025 It’s an old fishing trick. In the days leading up to an expedition, experienced anglers cast a handful of bran or other roughage […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL SYDNEY, 9 FEBRUARY 2025 It’s an old fishing trick. In the days leading up to an expedition, experienced anglers cast a handful of bran or other roughage […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 3 FEBRUARY 2025 Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville, was the notorious Public Prosecutor during France’s ‘Reign of Terror’. For his outsized role in delivering thousands to […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 2 FEBRUARY 2025 A few days ago, the Church celebrated the memorial of St Thomas Aquinas, the great 13th-century Dominican friar who was arguably the greatest […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 29 DECEMBER 2024 It’s the original Home Alone story. Like many pious Jews, Joseph, Mary and the kid had their holidays in Jerusalem during the weeklong […]
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 15 December 2024 Can we measure happiness? One way might simply be to ask people how happy they feel on a scale of 1 to 10. […]
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one.
Take honour from me and my life is done.
Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try.
In that I live, and for will I die.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Thursday 2nd Week of Advent, 12 December 2024 Sometimes in life we feel besieged, as though, in the words of our Gospel, the violent were taking […]
St Ambrose Catholic Primary School, 8 December 2024 Today the Parish of St Ambrose has celebrated a century of service to the district. It began as a few dozen Catholic […]
St Ambrose’s Parish, 8 December 2024 Last week (Lk 21:25-28,34-36) and this (Lk 3:1-6) we read from the Gospel of St Luke and will continue to do so every Sunday […]
Holy Innocents Croydon, 1 December 2024 Reading the tea leaves is a common expression for attending to signs and being prescient in interpreting them with a view to knowing the […]