Tag: Church
Dr Philippa Martyr: If we’re different, others will want what we...
If we’re different, others will want what we possess
Recently I said that you can’t be holy and live exactly like pagans at the same...
The Passion and The Joy
Combining Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate to celebrate the Passion and the Joy of Easter in concert at St Peter’s Church, Surry Hills.
It was...
Simcha Fisher: Making the church in our image
Power grabs in the church are not a new problem
The National Catholic Reporter has published a strange story about what happens to a parish...
Do you pray for our priests?
Celibacy - freely embraced - helps create really good, fatherly and even emotionally available men
When was the last time you prayed for priests, or...
Philippa Martyr: Women, equality and the Church
The Church is either human and democratic or like the Blues Brothers – on a mission from God
My last piece on women deacons caused...
Setting the world on fire: life in the Holy Spirit
It is not sufficient for us to confine our Christian life to the pews of the parish Church and a scattering of prayers in the home, without commitment to the issues of our time and the presenting challenges of the world
The Church: Dwelling Place of the Holy Spirit
Not only does the Spirit make the Church one, it also leads the Church to be faithful, in ever deeper adherence to Christ.
We need the Mass even more
A week ago, my friend and colleague Peter Holmes published an article ‘Missing Mass? Don’t complain…’ Its focus is not so much on those...
Big questions: the Pandemic, our Mission and the New Evangelisation
this cataclysm has removed from our path artificial obstacles to new endeavours and underscored the part each of us can play as the baptised in the rebuilding of the new world that awaits
And a very happy Easter to everyone!
Spiritual communions, perfect acts of contrition, and Mass on TV are not what the Lord intended for us. He intended real things: breath and bodies; oil and wine in our wounds; flesh and blood for us to eat; water and fire to purify
Plenary 2020 and holiness: Hear the plea of the young
Australian youth want holiness ffrom the Church. On this issue, the Plenary needs to deliver.
Easter: the search for meaning
What does Easter mean for you? For many, in an increasingly materialistic and pleasure driven society it’s all about hot cross buns, chocolate Easter...
