Liturgies

Today is Mother’s Day. We began to celebrate Mother’s Day in Australia in 1924 following the lead of the USA by celebrating on the second Sunday in May. This celebration began in the USA in...

One Sunday morning a mother went in to wake her son to get ready for church, to which he replied, "I'm not going.""Why not", she asked?"I'll give you two good reasons," he said.(1) "They don't...

An elderly man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favourite biscuits wafting up the stairs. Gathering his remaining strength, he lifted himself...

Cate Blanchett’s Oscar winning performance portraying Jasmine, a former New York socialite whose life has imploded in the wake of her wheeler-dealer husband’s imprisonment, has links to today’s gospel story of the Prodigal Son.With a...

Today I would like to share some of my learnings from Guerrilla Gardening as I feel they connect with today’s Gospel. First, a story … An old Italian man lived alone in New Jersey . He wanted...

                                                   Meditation-The Nature of Transcendence   So why are we here, this is the ‘why is there something rather than nothing’ question, why are we here playing a role within our universe, the solar system, on our...

How did you survive 40 degrees yesterday? I stayed home and watched some of the cricket. I would like to begin with an adapted story from Anthony DeMello. Jesus said he had never been to a 20-20 Cricket...

It was a sad day on Thursday when the High Court in Canberra threw out the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) same-sex marriage law, declaring that the 27 marriages performed in the small 5 day window...

FROM PRESENTS TO PRESENCE.  We have entered that time of the year, the Christmas shopping season; you may have been able to avoid such an intense shopping experience for most of the year. It is here...

Taken from The Art of original thinking by Jan Phillips. “Humanity is being taken to a place where it will have to choose between suicide and adoration,” wrote the Jesuit priest and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin....