Tag: Easter
The wait is over – Catholics return in big numbers to...
Just 12 months ago, cathedrals and churches across the nation and around the world stood empty and closed as the pandemic took its toll, leading to the first Easter not celebrated in the usual way since the time of the Spanish Flu in Australia shortly after the First world War.
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...
Inspired by Jesus, many step forward
Many people across city seek to join the Church at Easter
More than 600 people packed St Mary’s Cathedral last weekend to witness a major...
10 ways to engage your family with Lent
Lent is an important time in the liturgical year. Six and a half weeks of preparation through prayer, fasting and almsgiving sets us up...
A hermit looks out his window in a time of crisis
In a focused way, I feel the pain of the global pestilence. It bites. I am sad and I am angry at the deaths of the innocent ones
Simcha Fisher: Words about death
We buried my father this month. He and my mother had bought plain Trappist coffins for themselves years ago, to spare us children the...
Annual Easter Rosary goes national
For fifteen years on Easter Monday, young adults from Somascan parishes in Western Australia have been trekking across the white sand of WA’s Coogee...
Faith, food and family formation
Faith and food have come together in a delicious book for cooking up the liturgical calendar featuring recipes highlighting the significance of each season.
In...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: A special octave, indeed
“Dear Father, I once read that in the early Church the week after Easter was like one continuous feast in the Church. Can you...
Simcha Fisher: Give God your radishes
The shepherd's prayer and the rabbi's prayer will both be received if they are offered sincerely, because of who God is.
‘Battle for our souls has begun’
Thousands have gathered at St Mary's Cathedral for the opening of the 2019 Easter Triduum.
Karl Schmude: The Easter yearning
Easter is an uncomfortable feast. Unlike Christmas, it dwells on death rather than life. While it finally celebrates the triumph of life over death,...
