Homily – First Sunday in Lent (C)
March 4, 2022 - by CBD Parish
Welcome to Lent where we are invited to the season of fasting, almsgiving and prayer. Fasting, almsgiving and prayer – I talked about these with the…
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From the Parish House
March 4, 2022 - by Brendan Reed
The last week has knocked us all about. Scenes of Russian tanks moving across Ukraine and the creation of a new flood of refugees whose fate remains unknown is heart…
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February 25, 2022 - by Brendan Reed
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia reminds us once again that we live in a world that is held together by a fragile peace. Our hearts cry out when we…
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February 18, 2022 - by CBD Parish
This week marks the Opening of the Parish Year. This is a local feast. The idea of this feast is to gather our communities and acknowledge the God given gifts…
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February 11, 2022 - by Brendan Reed
Today in the Gospel we are presented with St Luke’s ‘Sermon on the Plain’. Unlike Matthew who gives us the ‘sermon on the mount’, Luke has Jesus gathering his disciples…
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February 11, 2022 - by CBD Parish
The Religious Discrimination Bill 2022 and the package of legislation on religious discrimination is causing heartache for the government, for many religious people and for a great portion of the…
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February 4, 2022 - by Brendan Reed
I am an occasional fisherman. It’s in fact a rare thing to find me in a boat, fishing. It’s not that I don’t like fish. I love a good flounder,…
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January 28, 2022 - by Brendan Reed
Welcome to our first newsletter for 2022. As a community of faith we begin our parish year with hope and confidence that the God who has walked with us in…
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Christmas Message 2021
December 23, 2021 - by CBD Parish
There is something paradoxical about Christmas. What do I mean? We can look forward to it but we can dread it at the same time. It is a great time…
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From the Parish House
December 17, 2021 - by Brendan Reed
I don’t think that I am alone in being a little shocked after initially reading the proposals coming out of the First Session of Australia’s Plenary Council, published on…
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