Understanding Our Faith
July 1, 2022 - by CBD Parish
I believe in the Holy Spirit In the earlier Creed – the Apostles’ Creed – there is the above very simple statement about the Holy Spirit. …
Read moreI believe in the Holy Spirit In the earlier Creed – the Apostles’ Creed – there is the above very simple statement about the Holy Spirit. …
Read moreIn 1997 when, after many years of part-time study, I graduated with a theology degree, my uncle, who was a diocesan priest, observed that it wasn’t a real…
Read moreThe third part of the Creed In both the creeds that are part of the celebration of Mass – the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed – the…
Read moreA New Age In our time, we are on the doorstep of a new age. This awareness was triggered by the work of the Second Vatican…
Read moreThe Holy Trinity We cannot understand the Trinity. The ways in which we talk about the Trinity are ways in which we have learned…
Read morePentecost With the feast of Pentecost, we come to the end of the season which began on Ash Wednesday, climaxed at Easter and continued on to…
Read moreTim Costello, when he was CEO of World Vision wrote in The Age: Happiness surprises us when we live consistently and consequentially…
Read moreBeing Faithful to Prayer “These (the first Christians) remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and to…
Read moreFaithful to the Breaking of the Bread When St Luke in his gospel and in the Acts of the Apostles speaks of “the breaking of the bread”, he…
Read moreI have always liked cards that carry an inspirational message and over the years I have amassed quite a collection. In the midst of a difficult time, I…
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