Tag: Mass
Missing Mass? Don’t complain …
The problem, for Amos, is that the people he is addressing are neglecting and mistreating the widows and orphans, the poor and vulnerable, but still showing up to worship in the temple.
Thousands join priests at Mass online
Catholics embrace the challenge to stay spiritually connected while forced physically apart.
Fr John Flader: life with the coronavirus
If we cannot attend Mass or receive Communion, that too is a sacrifice we can offer to God, in union with the many people around the world who over the centuries and at the present time, cannot attend Mass.
Masses, meditations, Stations of the Cross livestreamed
Weekday Rosary at 7:10pm followed by Mass/ Adoration and Stations of the Cross.
Rediscovering home in a time of pandemic
The second epidemic is destructive in other ways, even more infectious than the first disease, spreading irrational fear, blind panic and brute selfishness.
Sadness and hope as churches close
There were bittersweet moments as Sydney Catholics said goodbye to Jesus in their churches.
Philippa Martyr: Who will fill the future pews?
The Catholic Church in Australia is in the middle of a Plenary Council process. So far, it’s produced easily predictable patterns of responses: those...
Simcha Fisher: You can always come back
One Sunday afternoon, I posted on Facebook:
"Reasons the Fishers left their pew this morning:
Had to go to the bathroom.
Also had to go to the...
Anna Krohn: The age of unbelief
Way back in what we imagine were the catechetically intact 1950s, the brilliant and irrepressible Catholic writer and Southerner, (Mary) Flannery O’Connor, was listening...
Simcha Fisher: Slavery vs sacrifice
Lately, I've been thinking about the idea of slavery to sin, what it means, what it does.
Anyone who's read the Old or New Testament,...
Why your kids should go to Mass with you
What if our children don't want to go to Mass? Should we insist? Isn't there a danger that forcing the issue will make them...
Let’s serve each other: Pope washes prisoners feet
https://youtu.be/cY0CTU0PaJA
We are all servants, Francis tells prisoners
Jesus' gesture of washing his disciples' feet, an act once reserved to servants and slaves, is one that...
