Liturgies

While it is true that we are all in this together, we are also experiencing very different ways of living, both from pre-virus times compared to now. For some it is a cosy time or battening down in a comfortable cave, for others it is a nightmare with no apparent end.

Our homily this week is a reflection by Br. David Steindl-Rast. He speaks of gratitude as the source of joy in our lives. While we cannot be grateful for everything that happens; we can be grateful at every moment. We can respond by trusting life, without fear.

A reflection on what really matter – what counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others (Nelson Mandela). The Homily this week is by Michael Tansky.

In the lead up to National Tree Day on Friday the 31st July, greater awareness of our connection to nature is important in today's post bushfire and COVID times. Our homily this week by Mark Thompson reflects on why trees can be important to our physical and spiritual survival.

This week's readings carry a theme that the spirit of god and our immersion in that spirit and comprehension of  that spirit is never as we expect it to be.

This week, David Cantwell talks about the huge disparity in the lives of indigenous Australians and the rest of the community.

Brian O'Hanlon invites us into a deeper understanding of awakening. A deep knowing that an inner part of each of us is forever. He notes that this cannot be achieved without a steady practice of being aware.

Today’s Liturgy looks at the present moment we are living through, the COVID 19 chapter, and asks the question whether this virus is friend or enemy or what! What lessons as a human community can we learn from it? Homilist: Tony Hempenstall

A six year old girl pleads with her mother to be allowed go to the pub with her dad. Through watching this enchanting encounter with this young child and her ego, Peter Kennedy invites us to reflect on the notion that although we need ego to survive in this life; it is that same ego that causes us pain and suffering.