Today in our Gospel Jesus uses the metaphor of the vine. This was a powerful symbol in the Jewish world, and became one also for...

Today’s readings coming so soon after Easter remind me of that last part of the mystery of the Transfiguration. After the wondrous...

So the risen Jesus enters the upper room, and offers his disciples peace. When we now read the New  Testament, the  gospel accounts of...

A few years ago, we had a series of online talks on the structure of the Mass. One of the last talks was on the Easter Vigil. This was...

What are we afraid of? Is it pain, is it poverty, is it losing our reputation, is it death? Do we fear that even if we have a life...

Today, the Church gives us the option of reflective silence after the Passion, which I think might be a good idea. So, I will just say a...

(Deacon Jim mentioned last week that) we have two candidates, Ellie and Tilly, who this year will celebrate the rites of initiation at...

We are blessed in this parish this year. We have two catechumens, Ellie and Tillie, who are experiencing the Rite of Christian Initiation...

As we know, Lent is a time of renewal. It is when we make a special effort to turn back to God and believe the Good News. It is when we...

We have mentioned before the close connection between Lent, Easter and the sacrament of baptism. Our opening prayer alludes to this, too....

Today is our last Sunday before Lent, and we have a wonderful set of readings to help us prepare for the upcoming season. The first...

Today in Australia is Word of God Sunday. This is a bit of a strange label, like calling a particular Sunday, Jesus Sunday. Every Sunday...

Today is World Day of Prayer for vocations, and our gospel gives us some interesting ways of considering how a vocation works. In the...

Over the last few years, we have been considering Pope Francis’s call for every Catholic community to be fundamentally missionary....

Today we will be praying the First Eucharistic Prayer, the most ancient of the Eucharistic prayers, known as the Roman Canon. The first...

Hope, Joy. Where is love at the centre of our lives? Creation, powering down, or up? 3.7 billion years, leading to ? Transformation....

Last night, when we celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, the first of the three great celebrations of Easter Triduum, we...

Tonight we remember the Lord’s Supper. We participate in the memorial Jesus himself inaugurated to continue his gift of himself to...

We’ve just heard the story of the killing of Jesus. Let’s sit with it for a few minutes. We might like to ask ourselves where we might be...

We’re sitting down at home, just had a nice dinner, relaxing. We’re watching the television, and a story comes on, and we decide we don’t...