Diocesan News
Lent calls us to reflect on sin – my sin, your sin, the nation’s sin, the church’s sin, the world’s sin. [Read More]
As we accompany Jesus this holy season, we started in the depths of temptation and weakness, and followed him to the heights of the transfiguration and contemplatio. But we know that Lent leads us inexorably to Jerusalem, and to the events of Holy Week. At the Last Supper, the Lord consoles us with promises of the Holy Spirit, whom he sends as our Advocate. [Read More]
There was a blessed and eerie feeling to our Ash Wednesday celebration in Brisbane this year. As I said to the congregation, there is nothing like a pending tropical cyclone to reinforce those words ‘Remember you are dust, and unto dust you will return’, [Read More]
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, calls for unity amid ongoing bloodshed in the country. Speaking during a sermon for the first-ever episcopal ordination of a Tamil priest in the country, the Cardinal also decried caste systems and divisions. [Read More]