Quinoa and kale, açai powder and green tea, a FitBit and a personal trainer – these are our culture’s secrets to living forever or till it feels like forever. There are even more ‘out there’ strategies: cosmetic, genetic or cybernetic treatments; getting yourself cloned or frozen till they have a cure; mind-to-computer uploading; and reincarnation into a younger body.
How are we to connect with the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ that we just chanted (Jn chs 18 & 19) and make the story our own? This Holy Week I want to suggest the crucial link is the sacraments. It’s in the sacraments that Christ’s Paschal mystery is remembered; in the sacraments that its fruits …
The first thing we do as we enter the world, we do through our mouths: we scream our lungs out. The next thing we do is breathe through them. Soon after we suckle with them. It’s said that infants think of the universe as an enormous teat just for them, and only gradually come to terms with the fact that …
We’ve heard the Holy Week story so many times before. How do we connect with it, make the story ours? What does it mean to say Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection saves, heals and elevates us? This Holy Week I want to suggest that the crucial link is the sacraments. It’s in the sacraments that Christ’s …
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark is a powerful, no-nonsense telling of the story of Jesus’ last day (Mk chs 14 & 15). Though it might have just seemed long to you, it’s actually the shortest of the four versions and it has some unique features. One is its stark realism. Mark tells it like it is. His Jesus is no demigod, no superhero.
Belinda and Shaun Stafford spent six years in an IVF programme after discovering they could not conceive in any other way – an experience Belinda described as “painful, tormenting, a strain on our marriage and just plain hard.”1 So, after having three children they decided enough was enough.
The Sydney Church in which I grew up was still a rather Irish one. Already by then my parents and schoolmates, like many Sydney Catholics, were not: they represented the much more culturally diverse Australia that emerged after the Second World War in places like Fairfield.
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWMAN DINNER “A PERSON CONVERTING” St. John’s College, University Of Sydney Many of you will have seen James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic – at the very […]
STATEMENT FROM MOST REV. ANTHONY FISHER OP ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, welcomed today’s announcement by the NSW Government to join the […]
“BUSINESS ETHICS 101 IN THE AGE OF THE CORPORATE TAX CUT” Sydney Catholic Business Network Lunch, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Sydney Thank you Lisa. Your Excellency, Archbishop Angelo Zani, Secretary of […]
