Liturgies

Today I want to say a few words about the mystery, awe and wonder of the mystical. Often a neglected part of Christian life, mysticism can be an amazing way to experience the Divine in...

Then Jesus said to them, “Watch, and be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for people’s lives are not made secure by what they own, even when they have more than they need.” We all...

Des Boyland, a botanist and ex Executive Director (Conservation), Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, actively lobbies for enhanced environmental management through Wildlife Queensland and serves on various Ministerial Advisory Committees. Kathleen Ellerman-Bull came from a large, extended rural...

Wes Howard-Brook and Sue Ferguson Johnson are authors, activists, theologians, spiritual directors and educators who advocate the need to integrate the inner and outer, the mystical and prophetic, the private and the public journeys. [soundcloud] https://soundcloud.com/stmarys/wes-howard-brook-sue-ferguson[/soundcloud]...

I want to invite you into an imaginative re-experience of these two stories, the first from the second book of Samuel and the second from the Gospel of Luke. In the book of Samuel, the prophet...

[soundcloud] https://soundcloud.com/stmarys/peter-kennedy-whats-in-a-name[/soundcloud] “Wot’s in a name she says And then she sighs And clasps her little hands A rose, she says, by any other name Would smell the same Wot’s in a name she says??”From The Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis Is it...

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/stmarys/ingerid-meagher-remembering[/soundcloud] Let me tell you a story by Mulla Nasruddin a 13th cent visionary Sufi and mystic jester from Akshehir in Turkey. His teaching stories reveal the paradoxes of conditioned living with humor. THE ROYAL PIGEONMulla Nasruddin...

s Anthony de Mello says: ‘Religion is not necessarily connected to spirituality.’ Yet, is one’s own conflict with religion the catalyst for spiritual growth? [soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/stmarys/annie-collett-waking-to-god-25[/soundcloud] Early this year, the Sydney Morning Herald reported a study published in the British...

“Anything less than the death of the False self is useless religion. The False Self must die for the True Self to live or, as Jesus himself puts it,” Unless the I go, the Spirit...

I pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders, our First Nations People. Specifically I remember Queensland Elders, including Sam Watson and thank him for his support in my sharing with you today. On...