Liturgies
Thursday, November 27th
LISTENING CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
Here we are a week out from the G20. We are told that it cost the Australian public $500 million dollars to host the G20 Summit in Brisbane. Wow. And we didn’t even get to see our...
Thursday, September 25th
Honouring the Divine in All; Decreases our Defenses.
This week we have had our fill of terrorism-related stories in the media, with an emphasis and aim of increasing our fears and vigilance as a nation. This heightened fear and suspicion lead in some...
Monday, September 8th
The price of becoming the thinking Ape.
Today’s Gospel is probably one of the most important pieces of scripture in the entire Bible. It states that after loving God, to love our neighbour as ourselves. The importance of loving ourselves cannot be over...
Monday, August 18th
Creating Our Amazing Future.
Creating Our Amazing Future. DEVELOPING YOUR RESILIENCE Can I please ask: Who in this room has ever had a problem??! Strangely enough, there is some merit in having problems. They help you to define your character. They...
Thursday, July 17th
The history of religion dominated by the need to control
What I want to share with you today is a little about the Politics of Religion. A priest was being honoured at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician...
Tuesday, June 24th
The importance of Interdependence by Carolyn Vincent
We must all learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in a single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And...
Wednesday, May 28th
Jesus Then and Jesus Now. Looking for Jesus finding ourselves.
Let me begin by bringing greetings from the Christian community in Palestine, and especially those communities with which I am most familiar: St Luke’s Anglican Church in Haifa and the Sabeel community in Nazareth. This...
Monday, May 19th
Mothers Day; A day to stand up for peace.
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...
Wednesday, May 7th
New Beginnings; Old Awakenings
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...
Tuesday, May 6th
To Resurrect is an invitation to wake up
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...