Last Sunday morning around ninety parishioners from across our parishes gathered together on Zoom to celebrate the Liturgy of the Word and then to participate in a Combined Parishes Meeting. …
Read more By now all Victorians are aware of the Chief Health Officers’ directions in relation to Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination for workers. What does this mean for our parishes? It means that…
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“Go and sell whatever you have and come follow me” There is a perception of Christianity by some people that to be a Christian means that there are a lot…
Read more Our Parishes Road Map to Reopening It seems that everyone is talking about the various road maps to reopening. Schools, businesses, sports clubs, and the entertainment industry are all planning…
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Read more Towards a synodal church This week the long-awaited Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australia begins. It has been three years since the decision to hold a Plenary…
Read more Every now and then we come across people in our lives who stand out, inexplicably. They haven’t followed the normal pathways of life. They haven’t followed the conventional routes of…
Read more Over the last eight weeks, Father Frank O’Loughlin has been sharing with us reflections and research on the whole idea of synodality and the Plenary Council. If you missed this…
Read more One of the quotes that I often return to in relation to Catholic Education is the following: “Teaching has an extraordinary moral depth and is one of humanity’s…
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Read more Saturday, 11 September marks the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attack of the World Trade Centre, Twin Towers, in New York. The site is now a memorial for the thousands…
Read more This Sunday’s gospel is the passage from Mark chapter 7:31-37. It is the story of Jesus healing a man who was both deaf and had an impediment in his speech. …
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