Liturgies

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.

Terry Fitzpatrick reflects on the racism toward the first peoples of this land Australia in light of the imploding in United States of America around racism toward its African American population.

In this week's homily Karyn Walsh will talk about the special work Micah Projects is undertaking during the pandemic in order to keep safe and healthy the large number of people they assist who are normally homeless.

In this homily Alison will share how the single most transformative thing we can do to harness our creative potential is to truly embody Jesus’s Greatest Commandment to ‘LOVE the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your Soul and with all your mind.’

The homily this week reflects on how we experience ‘Wisdom’, the feminine face of God, through our own mothers, relationship with Mother Earth and our innate feminine wisdom.

Margaret Clifford will be reflecting on the theme of walking together in uncertain times and the quote by Franciscan sister and scientist, Ilia Delio, If we want a different world, we must become a different people. (March Newsletter, Omega Centre; "Hope in a Time of Crisis")

This week the Homily draws a parallel between the remembering of ANZAC Day and this Easter season where the disciples on the road to Emmaus seemed so wrapped up in their own questions and confusion that they did not "see" the One whose loss they grieved. Rather than impose himself on his friends, Jesus respects their experience and lets them open their eyes and see Jesus for themselves.