Adam in the Garden of Eden and Jesus in the Garden of Gethesemane… What do they have to do with each other? Discover how Christ is the ‘Last Adam’ in […]
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Mar
2019
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Mar
2019
HOMILY FOR UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA GRADUATION MASS
‘A long melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love.’ ‘What gives it its emotional heft is the sense of expiry and mortality that hangs over it.’ It ‘confronts the irreversible forward march of time, the pain of abandonment, the loss of love.’
28
Mar
2019
How to Help a Friend in Need
“She’ll be right, mate,” is a slogan as quintessentially Aussie as the Victa Lawnmower, the Hills Hoist Clothesline and Vegemite on toast. In international circles, this no-fuss, no-sweat attitude seems […]
27
Mar
2019
Project Compassion: Peter’s Story
Peter is thrilled to now have clean water on tap at his boarding school. Long walks to unsafe water sources were tiring for Peter, who is living with a disability. […]
26
Mar
2019
Overcoming Fear of Commitment (Vocations)
Allergic to commitment? Fear of committing can stop us in our tracks and leave us stagnant in our journey of life. Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP speaks on why so […]
25
Mar
2019
Saying Yes to God (podcast)
The Feast of the Annunciation is one of the most important feasts in the Church Calendar. It celebrates the moment when the angel Gabriel declared to Mary that she would […]
24
Mar
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 3RD SUNDAY LENT C + INSTALLATION OF FR JOSEPH GEDEON AS PARISH PRIEST
Suffering. Innocent suffering. What sense can any human being, any religion make of it? And how can we believe in a good God in the face of it? The common answer in the ancient world was: he got what he deserved.
24
Mar
2019
3rd Sunday: The Fruitless Fig
Our Faith is like the fig tree … when life gets difficult we can’t just give up on our Faith like the Orchard owner. We need to be patient and […]
23
Mar
2019
Extraordinary Women: Sisters in Rwanda
Hello, I’m Sister Cecilia. I live in Rwanda, a beautiful country in the heart of Africa. Since I was a child, I dreamt of taking care of elderly people, the […]
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Mar
2019
Why do we fast during Lent?
Why do we fast and give something up for 40 days? Chocolate, games, social media, coffee – what’s the point of giving any of these things up? REFLECT 1. How […]