Liturgies

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....

In the days when churches were left open all day and half the night, an old man could be seen sitting right at the back of an old church in the corner, in semi-darkness. As the...

On the weekend of the 21 and 22 September Marie Williams shared from her recently best selling book Green Vanilla Tea,  a story of compassion and courage in the face of a deadly and little understood illness. A...

The St Mary's Community travelled to Natural Bridge in the Springbrook National Park for our Mass in the inspiring setting of Andelaine, owned by David Burke, the founder of the Australian Institute for Enneagram Studies,...

It is interesting that this is our gospel reading on the night/day we consider and choose leadership in our country.A day when we ask : what are my values, what is best for us all,...

Not everything is as we assume, or as we perceive it. As a young Minister in my first church, one elderly lady parishioner was going on holidays, and as is expected of Ministers, she put...

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...