Method: Creighton
Email: eliza.a.segarra@gmail.com
Phone: 0432333549
26
May
2022
19
May
2022
A Statement on the passing of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021
It is truly a dark day for New South Wales. I am deeply saddened that the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 has passed the NSW Parliament. The disturbing nature of this legislation is compounded by the way the debate over amendments was conducted. All amendments put forward by those who would seek to make this deadly regime …
19
May
2022
Pontifical Mass of Christian Burial for Richard Connolly
In 1967 a rather precocious young Anthony Fisher complained to Sr Mary Eucharia RSM that the new hymn she was teaching us—Sr Miriam Therese Winter’s “I saw raindrops on my window: joy is like the rain”—seemed barely to mention God. In response Sister offered us a better hymn: she taught us Richard Connolly and James McAuley’s ♪♪ Seek, O seek the Lord, while He is near, Trust …
15
May
2022
Mass for the Fifth Sunday of Easter and Marian Day for the Vietnamese Catholic Community
In the feature article in today’s Sydney Morning Herard Lauren Ironmonger asks whether monogamy is dead and we are destined for multiple contemporaneous and successive primary loves?[1] She says it is the question on the mind of millennials as they navigate the perennial human …
08
May
2022
Mass Commemorating the Bicentenary of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of St Mary’s Chapel/Cathedral, Sydney
The great Renaissance art historian, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), was an advocate of Graeco-Roman, Romanesque and neo-classical architecture, but no fan of the ‘French’ mediaeval aesthetic with its pointed arches, vaulted ceilings, flying buttresses …
03
May
2022
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR BEGINNING TEACHERS FOR SYDNEY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Feast of the Holy Apostles Philip and James, St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 3 May, 2022 Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success was a non-fiction smash hit.[i] It debuted […]
01
May
2022
Mass of the Third Sunday of Easter Year C + Paschal Eucharist for Neophytes
Two years before he was catapulted to stardom as “Crocodile Dundee,” Paul Hogan graced American TV with an advertisement for Australian Tourism (1984).[i] He demonstrated the cheerful, laid-back demeanour of Aussies, while showcasing some of our beautiful landscapes including Sydney Harbour.
29
Apr
2022
Introduction to the Pontifical Mass of Christian Burial for Rev. Ray Weaver
Welcome to the Church of St. Anne, Strathfield South, for the Pontifical Mass of Christian Burial for Fr Raymond John Weaver, a Priest of the Archdiocese of Sydney. Fr Ray was born in 1937, was a seminarian at St Patrick’s College Manly and was ordained to the priesthood by …
29
Apr
2022
Solemn Mass for the Feast of St Catherine of Siena + Perpetual Profession of Adriel Bernice Moniz in the Marian Community of Reconciliation (Fraternas)
In a world with striking parallels to our own, a young woman named Caterina di Benincasa (1347-80) from Siena was called to apply her gifts in …
28
Apr
2022
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE FEAST OF ST PETER CHANEL
n the extreme sport of free-diving, competitors hold their breath unaided for as long as they can and drop to a depth of water as low as they can before resurfacing: some of you here tonight may have tried this as kids and given your mothers a fright! The king of this sport is Viennese-born Herbert Nitsch…