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The third letter from Br Mark O'Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications in the Diocese of Parramatta, reporting on the second week of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in Rome....
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Live from Rome, Br Mark O'Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications provides his first reflection before the Synod on Synodality commences - Trust the God of surprises! ...
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:14) In this famous passage from John’s Gospel, verse 14 in Greek literally says that “the Word became flesh and pitched his tent among us”. God tented with the Israelites in the wilderness and in Christ, God pitches...
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The fourth letter from Br Mark O'Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications in the Diocese of Parramatta, reporting on the third week of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in Rome....
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The third letter from Br Mark O'Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications in the Diocese of Parramatta, reporting on the second week of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in Rome....
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The second letter from Br Mark O'Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications in the Diocese of Parramatta, reporting on the first week of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in Rome....
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As we pilgrims travel from the darkness of winter to a new springtime, we are called to convert from a “heart of stone” and replace it with a “heart of flesh” and mercy....
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People must now be encouraged to deepen the insights of the gift of faith. Faith always needs to well up from within. Only when we listen can faith dialogue with the culture around it and exercise prophetic imagination. That’s what is at the heart of the coming journey of synodality.
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Pope Francis believes that the world and even the Church has forgotten what it means to be merciful and that being overly judgmental prevents us from showing mercy to others....