Sparks of Beauty
August 26, 2022 - by CBD Parish
A couple of Saturday mornings ago, the first three items on my local news bulletin were the stabbing of an author at a literary event, life support being…
Read moreA couple of Saturday mornings ago, the first three items on my local news bulletin were the stabbing of an author at a literary event, life support being…
Read moreNew Age, New Approach – the Catechumenate Last week in this series, we spoke of the new age in which we, the Church, are living. Coming…
Read moreA Different Time Over the last few weeks, in this series in the Parish Newsletter, we have been looking at the situation of believers over the centuries that…
Read moreEntering a New Age The interpenetration between society and Christianity that was characteristic of European societies for a very long time has shaped the way of…
Read morePhillip Larkin asked Where can we live but days? and so, I look out at the pearl grey morning and the sulky clouds, while…
Read moreThe Reformation Over these recent weeks we have been considering the interpenetration of society and Christianity during the period of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cracks began…
Read moreChristendom II When we use the word ‘Christendom’, we mean the social arrangement which prevailed following the conversion of the emperor Constantine which was a tight…
Read moreDifferent Times in History In the course of a two-thousand-year history, the Church has lived in different historical contexts and has had to adapt to them. Over the last two…
Read more“Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention…
Faith Reflections Plenary Council
Read moreChristendom: the merging of society and Christianity Last week in response to the publication of some results of Australia’s most recent census, I began to look…
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